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  SIRIUS Satellite Radio - CNN Radio – Listen Live to CNN News Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio – CNN Headline News ...
Glenn Beck is an unconventional look at the news of the day featuring Beck's unique and often amusing perspective on top stories from world events and politics to pop culture and everyday hassles.
Showbiz Tonight, hosted from CNN's New York studios by A.J. Hammer, is a live program mixing the latest entertainment stories, live reports, in-studio live interviews, and debates on hot issues, along with provocative pundits on the latest news, trends and buzz.
CNN Headline News on SIRIUS is a simulcast of the television news programming featuring such widely acclaimed shows as Prime News Tonight, Showbiz Tonight, Nancy Grace and Robin & Company.
www.sirius.com /cnnheadlinenews   (377 words)

  
  CNN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cable News Network (CNN) is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter currently is not recognized in CNN's official history).
CNN's global reputation was greatly enhanced in 1991 during the Gulf War, where its saturation coverage was carried around the world.
CNN launched two specialty news channels for the American market which would later close amid competitive pressure: CNNSI shut down in 2002, and CNNfn shut down after nine years on the air in December 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CNN   (1568 words)

  
 CNN = Contains No News
They are supposed to report the news and tell the truth regardless of whether or not it supports the agenda or the image of the government.
The news networks should not make it their mission to make us believe that all is wonderful if it comes in red white and blue.
CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship.
tvnewslies.org /html/cnn___contains_no_news.html   (1571 words)

  
 CNN News - AskTheBrain.com
CNN is primarily a technological innovation in international news by reason of its ability to interconnect so many video sources, newsrooms, and foreign ministries to so many television sets around the world.
CNN World News -- President Hugo Chavez is considering imposing martial law to quell the crisis in Venezuela after two people were shot dead and dozens wounded during a march aimed at ousting him.
CNN Student News is designed for teachers to select individual segments that complement their curriculum, and provides schools with free taping rights to record each day's program and use it at their convenience.
www.askthebrain.com /cnn_new-.html   (398 words)

  
 Network News Music :: CNN HEADLINE NEWS
CNN Headline News keeps the viewer interested by airing short segments that cram a lot of information into people's heads.
This one, however, would be a true revamp because besides new graphics, new anchors and new music, they would go from taping the shows and simply reairing them for six hours to airing many hours of live news a day.
On January 23, 2003 CNN Headline News added six more live hours of news and on February 3, 2003 a late night edition was added with the lovely Rudi Bakhtiar.
www.geocities.com /netnewsmusic/cnnhln.html   (559 words)

  
 Wired News: Will CNN Site Spoof Crash?
I'm just referencing CNN by using something that looks similar to their logo, but which is intentionally and obviously different," Exley wrote on his website.
CNN also plans to argue that Exley's site creates a dilution of its marks -- basically, that someone who unknowingly stumbles onto the CNNdn site would be led to believe that it's part of the CNN umbrella.
Finally, to prove that Exley is a cybersquatter, CNN would have to show that he had a "bad faith intent," which Greenstein thinks is going to be difficult.
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,41566,00.html   (860 words)

  
 ABC News: CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan attends the Peabody Awards for broadcast and cable excellence on May 17, 1999, in New York.
NEW YORK Feb 11, 2005 —; CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq.
Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=492860   (487 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Business - Daily News Exclusive: CNN sacks big names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Utley, a longtime foreign correspondent for NBC and ABC, told the Daily News he decided to part ways with CNN because "what I was doing was being used less." The CNN contributor known for his essays said he's working on a series on foreign affairs that he hopes will be picked up by PBS.
The moves are the latest sign of a shift at CNN under chairman Walter Isaacson away from longer think pieces and investigative reporting by veteran broadcasters, toward snappy live reports, marquee-name anchors, and younger reporters, insiders said.
CNN is always bringing in new talent," she added, pointing to four recent hires including James Colby, formerly of CBS News and ex-WCBS-TV reporter Whitney Casey.
www.nydailynews.com /business/story/48274p-45419c.html   (452 words)

  
 CNN sucks.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It used to be that CNN was the place to go for decent coverage of world news.
The bottom rectangle displays scrolling news bites and a half-assed weather report (displaying two cities at a time so that the probability of your living in any of the cities listed is next to nothing).
What I don't understand is why they repeat the news so often if they supposedly have so much news to report that it's necessary to scroll additional news across the bottom.
maddox.xmission.com /cnn_sucks.html   (433 words)

  
 CNN News Group
CNN news offices are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
CNN International reaches nearly 150 million television households in 212 countries and territories—more viewers than all other cable news services combined.
CNN's interactive services are the most visited news and information sites on the Internet, with more than five billion page views to date.
www.wetfeet.com /asp/companyprofiles.asp?companypk=1782   (250 words)

  
 CNN Profile
CNN's role in informing Americans about the events that most directly touch their lives is clear.
CNN for the complete perspective - the facts, the analysis, and the insight - of what's happening in their world.
CNN is the world’s farthest reaching news operation with 39 bureaus around the globe.
www.cabletvadbureau.com /02Profiles/CNNProf.htm   (224 words)

  
 XM Radio - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
XM Satellite Radio has 14 channels devoted to news and talk - all of which will be focused on the Supreme Court nominee as the process moves forward.
The news channel for the next generation of news listeners.
Microsoft and NBC combine resources to present MSNBC, a hard hitting news, investigative and lifestyle channel, focusing on their "more facts and more angles" approach to global and National coverage.
www.xmradio.com /programming/neighborhood.jsp?hood=news   (454 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
On the New York Times' op-ed page on Friday, Eason Jordan, the network's news chief, admitted that his organization had learned some "awful things" about the Baathist regime--murders, tortures, assassination plots--that it simply could not broadcast earlier.
CNN correspondents Wolf Blitzer, Christiane Amanpour and Richard Roth, to name a few, were banned for critical reporting.
In a way CNN's absence at this pivotal moment provides a small measure of justice: The network couldn't use its own cameras to cover the fall of a regime that it had treated with such astonishing respect.
www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110003336   (960 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Business - Daily News Exclusive: CNN pillar calling it quits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CNN financial editor Kandel, who pioneered business reporting on TV in launching shows like "Moneyline," will deliver his last report March 11.
The 74-year-old veteran New York journalist, known to friends as Mike, will remain at CNN as a consultant and keep his famously cluttered office at the Time Warner Center.
CNN execs contend they still have business news covered, with three weekend business shows, regular market updates, and Web-site postings.
www.nydailynews.com /business/story/285041p-244164c.html   (584 words)

  
 CNN snatching page out of YouTube's book | CNET News.com
CNN wants some of the clips finding their way onto popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to make an appearance on the cable news channel.
On Monday, CNN is expected to announce the launch of CNN Exchange, a page on the company's Web site that will feature user-submitted video, audio and articles.
The pioneer in 24-hour news broadcasting is coming to user-submitted video at a time when citizen journalism has sparked much fanfare.
www.news.com /2100-1025_3-6100139.html   (358 words)

  
 CNN - World Briefs - Mar. 6, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ROME (CNN) -- U.S. officials pressed the Italian government Tuesday to recapture the Palestinian terrorist convicted of killing an American during a 1985 ship hijacking.
Al-Molqi, 34, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for hijacking the cruise ship Achille Lauro, shooting passenger Leon Klinghoffer, who was in a wheelchair, and ordering one of the ship's employees to push him and the chair overboard.
TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Northern Japan's Mount Komagatake spewed smoke and ash into the air late Tuesday, forcing schools to close and some residents to leave their homes.
www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/Newsbriefs/9603/03-06   (233 words)

  
 CNN switches news chiefs | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The revolving door that leads to the news chief's office at CNN/U.S. spun again Monday, ushering in former CBS executive Jonathan Klein and spitting out Princell Hair, who was in charge for just 14 months.
By contrast, CNN's biggest rival, Fox News Channel, has had most of the same faces in upper management from the day it went on the air in 1996.
Walton predicted that by the end of the year, CNN News Group would have a record 35 percent growth in profit.
www.ajc.com /news/content/business/cnn/1104/23turner.html   (577 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / CNN planted question at debate, student says   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NEW YORK -- CNN planted a question about computer preferences at last week's debate of the Democratic presidential candidates at Faneuil Hall in Boston, according to the student who posed the query and wrote about it yesterday in an online forum of the Brown (University) Daily Herald.
Trustman wrote yesterday that she was called the morning of the debate and given the topic of the question the CNN producers wanted her to ask.
She wrote that she was "confused by the question's relevance" and constructed what she thought was a "much more relevant" question.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/11/cnn_planted_question_at_debate_student_says   (247 words)

  
 CNN Student News Transcript: September 20, 2007 - CNN.com
JOHN VAUSE, CNN REPORTER: With Typhoon Wipha on a collision course for Shanghai, authorities prepared for the worst.
Species loss is one of the environmental issues covered in Planet in Peril, a CNN investigation premiering in October.
CNN Student News is taking part in the special event.
www.cnn.com /2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/19/sn.transcript.thu/index.html?section=cnn_latest   (1483 words)

  
 CNN.com - Podcasting
CNN anchor and managing editor of "Lou Dobbs Tonight", Lou Dobbs comments on news events that impact people's lives.
CNN's Ali Velshi examines in simple terms what's behind the volatility in the stock market and the crisis in the housing market.
CNN's Amanda Moyer talks with potential voters ages 18 to 30 about which presidential candidates interest them and what issues matter the most.
www.cnn.com /services/podcasting   (618 words)

  
 CNN and Psyops
CNN is up in arms about our report in the last issue of CounterPunch concerning the findings of the Dutch journalist, Abe de Vries about the presence of US Army personnel at CNN, owned by Time-Warner.
Among the audience of this broadcast was CNN's bureau in South Africa which lost no time in relaying news of it to CNN hq in Atlanta, and I duly received an angry phone call from Eason Jordan who identified himself as CNN's president of newsgathering and international networks.
It could be that CNN was the target of a psyops penetration and is still too naïve to figure out what was going on.
www.counterpunch.org /cnnpsyops.html   (1105 words)

  
 Cnn News Story Top
Watch CNN's ongoing live coverage of news of the capture On The Scene: Iraqis must be top priority •.
CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war.
And, she says CNN was intimidated by the Bush administration and Fox News, which put a
www.fetchmypaper.com /stories/cnn-news-story-top.html   (317 words)

  
 Wired News: Fake CNN Website Taken Offline
The Fake CNN News Generator was online only a week, but generated a lot of controversy after ersatz news stories were picked up by local outlets and reported as real.
Several newspapers and TV news shows reported that the Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley of TV and video fame, would be attending the local university.
Smith and two friends created the Fake CNN News Generator as a way to play practical jokes on friends -- it was never meant to go public.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,57506,00.html   (1028 words)

  
 CNN News, 11/15/98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: In Florida, the Church of Scientology faces charges of abuse and criminal neglect.
As CNN's Susan Candiotti reports, the family of Lisa McPherson (ph) believes she'd be alive today had the church acted differently.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Nearly three years after Lisa McPherson's death, from what the medical examiner ruled was a blood clot, complicated by severe dehydration, criminal charges have been filed against the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida.
members.cox.net /batchild1/transcript/cnn.htm   (484 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: ABC-CNN news merger discussed
CNN, owned by AOL Time Warner, has held merger discussions with both ABC and CBS in recent years that bogged down over questions about control of the news divisions.
CNN chairman Walter Isaacson, in a statement sent to the network's staff yesterday, said CNN's newsgathering operation and international distribution complemented a strong broadcast-news unit.
ABC News shares with CBS and NBC the prestige of being one of the three main broadcast news operations.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=17010   (513 words)

  
 Blog Exposure Gets CNN News Exec Fired
The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.
Update [2005-2-11 21:34:49 by Erick]: Sources from the newsroom at CNN tell us that as of 5pm today, no one was talking about, let alone thinking of a resignation.
"CNN announced the resignation of Eason Jordan this evening as CNN's chief news executive, sending "shock waves" through the news organization as the blogosphere has imposed accountability on the mainstream media.
www.webpronews.com /news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050211BlogExposureGetsCNNNewsExecFired.html   (947 words)

  
 CNN.com International
CNN highlights the best pictures each day from around the world
Stay connected with all the latest news from CNN and your other favourite sites in one convenient desktop application; with RSS reader and ticker.
Receive all the news and stay up to date on developing stories from the International edition at cnn.com straight to your PDA.
edition.cnn.com   (325 words)

  
 NEWS - FOX News, CNN News, BBC News - Shopping, Services and Information at NEWSIWORLD.COM
News is often reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites.
News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style.
Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies.
www.newsiworld.com   (367 words)

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