Word: cnn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bush is pleased and relaxed. Things are going well. He turns to Fuller and says, "I wish the sand were running through the hourglass faster because everything feels real solid right now." Bush heads into the room next door and pedals a stationary bicycle for 20 minutes while watching CNN...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...
...anything I could get my hands on." He started out in Chicago radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...
Sometimes a spartan one. CNN bolsters its profits (an estimated $60 million last year) through a minimal use of high-cost graphics and glitz, and by maintaining a notoriously low-paid nonunion staff. Shaw does not divulge his salary ("It's between me and the IRS"), but insists that it is not comparable to the millions paid to his network rivals. In any case, the exemplar of CNN spareness takes a dim view of such excess. Says he: "Beware of anchormen who ride in limousines...
...CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw joins TV' s most elite fraternity. -- An aspirin study gives the New England Journal of Medicine a headache...