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Turner appeared to contradict that hands-off policy in late May when he recorded his first CNN editorial, opposing violence in movies, and had it shown eleven times (plus ten airings on the Superstation). He attacked The Deer Hunter, a Viet Nam War drama, The Warriors, a fictional portrayal of New York City youth gangs, and especially Taxi Driver, the film that allegedly inspired John Hinckley's attempted assassination of President Reagan. Said Turner: "The people responsible for this movie should be just as much on trial as John Hinckley himself ... Write your Congressman and your Senator right away...
...heart of CNN'S day is from 7 p.m. to 10p.m. E.T.: half an hour of business and economic news, followed by half an hour of sports, and then two hours of world and national reports. "A newspaper you can watch" is the way Turner describes it. The format for the rest of the day is much like an extended version of NBC's Today or ABC's Good Morning America: sober and almost impersonal in the hourly news summaries, folksy in such soft segments as Arden Zinn's exercise class and Dr. Steve Kritsick...
...President was unhurt. In El Salvador, where CNN was outstaffed four or five to one by each of the Big Three networks, it was CNN Correspondent James Allen Miklaszewski who caused worldwide furor by photographing an American military "adviser" carrying an M-16 rifle in violation of U.S. Government policy. Satisfying as those coups were, perhaps most significant was a victory CNN won by taking the networks and the White House to court: it now has a full share in providing and receiving pool coverage of day-to-day Administration events...
...CNN has won the grudging respect of senior news executives at all three major networks. Says Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News: "We see CNN as a very good service . . . but not of network quality." Adds Richard Wald, senior vice president for news at ABC: "CNN does a nice, straightforward, basic rendition of the news very competently." Outside analysts are more generous. Anthony Hoffmann, a cable analyst for Warburg Paribas Becker Securities, observes, "People talking to a CNN reporter do not seem to think they are talking to the whole world and so they say things they will...
...draw 80% of total TV viewing. But CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski predicted to TIME Correspondent Janice C. Simpson that by 1990 the three networks' share in households with cable will drop to 57%. Turner claims CBS sought to counter that slippage by once trying to buy CNN; Jankowski sidesteps making any answer to that suggestion. But industry sources say there may be a continuing interest at CBS in breaking into cable news...