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CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [http://www.meandted.com/author.htm] [http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/] (although he currently is not recognized in CNN's official history). It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. CNN is widely credited for introducing the concept of 24-hour news coverage. It celebrated its 25th anniversary on June 1, 2005. As of December 2004, it is available in 88.2 million U.S. households [http://www.tvweek.com/article.cms?articleId=27290] and more than 890,000 U.S. hotel rooms, and it broadcasts primarily from its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia and from studios in New York City and Washington, DC. Globally, the network has combined branded networks and services that are available to more than 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries and territories. ==History== [[image:CNN911scrn.jpg|thumb|CNN Covering September 11 attacks]] Since CNN's launch on June 1, 1980, the network has expanded its reach to a number of cable and satellite television networks (such as CNN Headline News), 12 web sites, two private place-based networks (such as CNN Airport Network), and two radio networks. The network has 42 bureaus around the world and more than 900 affiliates worldwide. CNN has launched many regional and foreign-language networks around the world. CNN debuted its news website CNN.com (then referred to as ''CNN Interactive'') on August 30, 1995, which it describes as the first major news and information website on the Internet. CNN's global reputation was greatly enhanced in 1991 during the Gulf War, where its saturation coverage was carried around the world. It obtained much of that coverage through close cooperation with the U.S. government, which led to accusations that it did not attempt to investigate the claims of the U.S. government during the war. There was a television movie, ''Live from Baghdad'', about the network's coverage of the war. CNN International now provides regional editions of its news service, in response to foreign demand for less U.S.-centric news coverage, and also rival services such as BBC World and Sky Television. It uses local reporters in many of its news-gathering centers, though they cover stories from an international (some would still say U.S.) perspective. On September 11, 2001, CNN was the first network to break news of what would prove to be the September 11 attacks. 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. CNN has also been lampooned and parody. See for instance, Groland and CNNNN == CNN shows == *''American Morning'' - The network's morning news program, airing from 7-10am ET. Hosted by former NBC News anchor Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien (journalist). Carol Costello provides news updates. *''Inside Politics'' - A political program that airs from 3:30-4:30pm ET weekdays. *''Wolf Blitzer Reports'' - A daily look at the day's stories airing live from Washington at 5pm ET. *''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' - A nightly news and discussion program that airing live at 6pm ET weeknights; evolved from Moneyline, a nightly business newscast. *''Anderson Cooper 360�'' - A fast-paced, nightly news program with former ABC News reporter Anderson Cooper that airs at 7pm ET weeknights. *''Paula Zahn Now'' - A look at the current issues affecting the world, with former CBS and FOX News anchorwoman Paula Zahn. Airing at 8pm ET weeknights. *''Larry King Live'' - A nightly talk program that airs daily at 9pm ET. *''NewsNight with Aaron Brown'' - Former ABC News anchor Aaron Brown hosts the network's signature nightly news program. Airs at 10pm ET weeknights. *''Capital Gang'' - Moderated by veteran Al Hunt, with panelists Mark Shields, Robert Novak, Kate O'Beirne, and Margaret Carlson, it is one of cable news' longest running programs, focusing on political news. Airing Saturday nights at 7pm ET. *''Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer'' - A look at the past week. Airs 12-2 p.m ET Sundays. *''CNN Daybreak'' - A first look at the day's stories airing live from New York at 5am ET. Hosted by Carol Costello. *''CNN Live Today'' / ''CNN Live Saturday'' / ''CNN Live Sunday'' - A daily look at what's making news airing live from Atlanta at 10am ET on weekdays and various times on the weekends. Hosted by Daryn Kagan on weekdays and Fredricka Whitfield on weekends. *''Live From...'' - A lively look at the day's stories airing live from Atlanta at 1pm ET. Hosted by Kyra Phillips. *''CNN Saturday Morning''/''CNN Sunday Morning'' - The network's weekend morning news program, airing at 7am ET. Hosted by Betty Nguyen and Tony Harris (journalist). *''CNN Saturday Night''/''CNN Sunday Night'' - The network's weekend evening news program, airing at 6pm ET and 10pm ET. Hosted by Carol Lin. == CNN specialized channels== *CNN Airport Network *CNN en Espa�ol *CNNfn (Financial network, closed in December 2004) *CNN Headline News *CNN International *CNN Plus (CNN+, a partner network in Spain, launched in 1999 with Sogecable) *CNN Sports Illustrated (a.k.a. CNNSI), the network's all-sports channel, closed in 2002. *CNN Turk *n-tv (CNN owns 27.5% of this news channel in Germany) == CNN personalities== {| width=100% |- valign ="top" |width=25%| ===Past=== *Natalie Allen *Peter Arnett *Pat Buchanan *Tucker Carlson *Joie Chen *Connie Chung *Wesley Clark *Chris Curle *Don Farmer *Leon Harris *Lois Hart *Bill Hemmer *John Holliman *Susan Rook *Sonia Ruseler *Daniel Schorr *Bernard Shaw (journalist) *Kathleen Sullivan *Greta Van Susteren *Dave Walker (journalist) *Lou Waters *Mary Alice Williams *Judy Woodruff |width=25%| ===Present=== *Christiane Amanpour *Rudi Bakhtiar *Paul Begala *Wolf Blitzer *Aaron Brown *Jack Cafferty *Margaret Carlson *James Carville *Jim Clancy (journalist) *Heidi Collins *Anderson Cooper *Carol Costello *Candy Crowley *Veronica De La Cruz *Lou Dobbs *Jeff Greenfield *Sanjay Gupta *Tony Harris (journalist) |width=25%| *Maria Hinojosa *Al Hunt *Daryn Kagan *John King (journalist) *Larry King *Howard Kurtz *Carol Lin *Tumi Makgabo *Jonathan Mann *Miguel Marquez *Octavia E. Nasr *Betty Nguyen *Robert Novak *Kate O'Beirne *Miles O'Brien (journalist) *Soledad O'Brien *Christina Park |width=25%| *Veronica Pedrosa *Kyra Phillips *Richard Quest *Nic Robertson *Richard Roth *Rick Sanchez *Bill Schneider *Andrew Serwer *Mark Shields *Fionnuala Sweeney *Jeffrey Toobin *Ralitsa Vassileva *Ali Velshi *Carlos Watson *Fredricka Whitfield *Paula Zahn |} ==Controversies and allegations of bias== ''See also:'' Media bias, Propaganda model CNN has come mainly under criticism by conservatives for liberal bias. Conservatives have alleged that CNN's reporting is characterized by liberal editorials disguised as news and have jokingly referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network", the "Communist News Network", or "Clearly Not Neutral." Conservative critics point to the following as evidence of bias: *During the first Gulf War, CNN reporters Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, and John Holliman refused to be debriefed by the US military concerning what they saw during their stay at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad during the initiation of the air campaign, citing themselves as belonging to an "international" news organization and stating it would compromise their journalistic principles. [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24752] [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/633771/posts] *On August 16, 1997, Chief News Executive Eason Jordan gave a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in an attempt to improve CNN's access to North Korean affairs. [http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1997/9708/news8/16.htm] (Jordan had been credited in 1996 with gaining exclusive access to North Korea for CNN reporters.) *In January 1998, Lucia Newman [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/newman.lucia.html], the bureau chief in Havana reported that Cuba's single candidate elections were better than the elections with “no dubious campaign spending” and “no mud slinging” in the United States. *On March 10, 1999, while speaking at Harvard, Eason Jordan thanked Cuban President Fidel Castro for his comments instigating CNN's decision to broadcast in other countries, CNN International. *In 1999, CNN, in partnership with corporate sister ''Time Magazine'' magazine, ran a report that Operation Tailwind included use of Sarin gas to kill a group of defectors from the United States armed forces. The story proved untrue, CNN issued a public retraction. [http://edition.cnn.com/US/9807/02/tailwind.johnson/] *In 2000, Lou Dobbs left CNN, reportedly due to heated clashes with then-president Rick Kaplan, who was frequently accused of manipulating news programs to present a liberal slant. Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of CNN founder Ted Turner. *On April 11, 2003, Eason Jordan confessed that CNN knew about human rights abuses committed in Iraq by Saddam Hussein since 1990, but the network abstained from coverage of them in order to gain better access to information on Hussein's government. Jordan maintained that complete reporting would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqi informants, and confidentiality was ensured to protect the lives of anti-Hussein Iraqi activists and translators. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html?ex=1050638400&en=ec21e8cd8fea181c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND] *In November 2004 at the News Xchange conference in Portugal, Eason Jordan claimed that United States armed forces were arresting and torturing non-Multinational force in Iraq Arabic journalists in Iraq. He also claimed that American troops were intentionally killing these journalists. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1355027,00.html] Also at the conference, Chris Cramer, a CNN executive, claimed that journalists were being "deliberately targeted (by the US military) for seeking out the truth." That month, al-Arabiya reporter Abdel Kader al-Saadi had been detained by U.S. forces for 11 days during U.S.-led attacks on Fallujah without comment on cause for his dentention. [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11868] *On January 27, 2005 Eason Jordan claimed 12 journalists who were killed were actually targeted by United States troops. He later tried to backtrack on his comments, but resigned from CNN on February 11, 2005 in an effort, he claimed, to spare the network from further controversy. Jordan's comments invoked outrage in the US, even among such "liberal" politicians such as Sen. Christopher Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank. *On March 24, 2005 in an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose, CNN President Jonathan Klein called FOX News Channel's audience "mostly angry white men [who] ... tend to be rabid." Klein then said a liberal, progressive TV network would never be as successful as Fox because "progressives don't get too worked up about anything. And they're pretty morally relativistic." == CNN domestic bureaus == (boldface indicate they're CNN's original bureaus, meaning they have been in operation since the network's first day) *Atlanta, Georgia *Boston, Massachusetts *Chicago, Illinois *Dallas, Texas *Detroit, Michigan *Los Angeles, California *Miami, Florida *New York, New York *San Francisco, California *Washington, DC *Seattle, Washington (Closed Q1, 2005) == CNN international bureaus == (boldface indicate they're CNN's original bureaus, meaning they have been in operation since the network's first day) *Baghdad, Iraq *Berlin, Germany *Beijing, China *Buenos Aires, Argentina *Dubai, United Arab Emirates *Havana, Cuba *Hong Kong, China *Islamabad, Pakistan *Jakarta, Indonesia *Jerusalem, Israel *Kabul, Afghanistan *Lagos, Nigeria *London, United Kingdom *Mexico City, Mexico *Moscow, Russia *Nairobi, Kenya *New Delhi, India *Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *Rome, Italy *Santiago, Chile *Seoul, South Korea ==Similar networks== The CNN format has inspired many similar cable news services: * CNN Headline News (1982) * Weather Channel (1982) * CNN International (1985) * CNBC (1989) * Court TV (1991) * CNN Airport Network (1992) * CNNfn (1995) * MSNBC (1996) * FOX News (1996) * CNNSI (CNN/Sports Illustrated) (1996) * ESPNEWS (1996) See also: :Category:24-hour television news channels (category). == External links == * [http://www.cnn.com/ CNN website] * [http://edition.cnn.com CNN International website] * [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2643 New Georgia Encyclopedia: CNN] U.S. television networks 24-hour television news channelsTime Warner subsidiaries la:CNN simple:CNN

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''An event mentioned in this article is a MediaWiki:June 1 selected anniversaries'' ------ Details please.... :The USA military experts for propaganda are known to have taken part in editorial policy of CNN and AOL Time Warner corporation. Check out the link http://www.fair.org/activism/cnn-psyops.html ad see it yourself. Maybe you will become disilusioned a bit. -J :I read it. The FAIR page doesn't actually make that claim. It just wonders what the hell those guys were doing working in the newsroom. I agree that it was wrong for them to be there, but your claims are unsupported by your source. User:Robert Merkel 01:01 Nov 28, 2002 (UTC) ----- Need expansion and NPOV'ing. For example, opinions toward CNN are generally positive in China where it is widely seen as more accurate than the government news. :It has also gained substantial notoriety in many parts of the world for its shameless use of spin (politics) and very liberal attitude towards truth. I dont know what are opinions in China, but in Eastern Europe and Arab world CNN is widely despised. Its use of spin doctors is well known, and you can compare it to BBC (which has similar goals and reach) to see how simpleminded and unprofessional CNN is. Its agressive unobjectivity is a symbol of everything bad which comes from America to many people, and do not try to censor that! -J :Again, too strong. CNN has its critics, many which you haven't mentioned (for instance, as I understand it many US right-wingers regard it as "too liberal"), it's hopelessly US-centric, and seems incapable of questioning US foriegn policy, but "widely despised"? Make your claims in the article more specific. :It's not CNN's job to question foreign policy of the U.S. or any other nation. It's their job to objectively report the facts, something more Wikipedians need to take a look at. NPOV is ''not'' categorically listing all viewpoints of a topic - it is describing something objectively and neutrally. ---- Moved from article until sources are substantiated (User:Stephen C. Carlson 03:08 Apr 11, 2003 (UTC)): :''The USA military experts for propaganda are known to have taken part in editorial policy of CNN, more precisely US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group, according to reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw (2/21/00, 2/25/00) and France's Intelligence Newsletter (2/17/00).'' == Naming == Surely the name of this page is wrong, as the acronym is universally used now? User:Ludraman | User talk:Ludraman 02:49, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC) == Anchors' political affiliations == Not that I necessarily doubt the majority of CNN anchors are Democrats--which, I might add, would only reflect the general leanings of TV and newspaper journalists elsewhere [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/politics/campaign/01points.html]--but where did this list come from? We need to cite a source, at the very least, or get rid of it as irrelevant. As it stands, the article looks like a smear designed to paint CNN as biased, with no hard evidence, only innuendo. ''User:Wikisux 20:30, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)'' == What about a piece on Bias Allegations? == Why is there no section on the allegations of bias leveled at CNN like there is on the FOX article? There are many mainstreem books on the subject, extensive internet comment, and it could be an explaination of the continuing ratings demise of CNN There isn't a lot of right-wing wikiactivism like there is on the left (see FOX News, and pretty much anything to do with GWB). Some good topics would be http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C16FD3C5F0C728DDDAD0894DB404482 and http://www.nationalreview.com/tks/054944.html This has been up for a few weeks so I'm adding it. Discuss if you have objections or want to add. I think we also need to show allegations of Conservative bias on CNN. There's dozens of examples of this. I will prepare a section on this in the comming days and post it. I'd appreciate any contributions anyone wants to add, but there is no shortage of examples of conservative bias on CNN. :I believe that many of the items on CNN's "bias allegations" list are misplaced, incorrect, or an attempt at attributing individuals' cherry-picked comments to the network's coverage as a whole. To be completely open before I begin editing this article, I hold that CBS is America's most liberal station, FOX News is its most right-wing station, and CNN to be my preferred outlet for centrist coverage. I will likely seek to weed out allegations which seem strictly partisan or unsourced in nature. For starters, allegations with no corroboration save National Review are suspcious, to me, given their self-professedly biased source. User:Shem Daimwood 23:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) For examples of conservative bias at CNN, there was a recent controversy over the network's coverage of the "Koran abuse" scandal yesterday. CNN.com's initial headline read "Report: Detainees, not soldiers, desecrated Koran" (or something to this effect, I was only told via telephone). It's the first time I've ever heard this individual say that they'd felt FoxNews' coverage of an event was more objective than CNN's, even. ;) I can't find any content on this via search engine yet, so if anyone's more blog-saavy and has seen coverage on this, do post it. User:Shem Daimwood ^{User talk:Shem Daimwood} 19:45, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::From Talk:FOX News...I agree with the structure Trodel's set up; the CNN page doesn't seem to have any regulars, but would anyone here object to a re-ordering of CNN's sections to follow the FoxNews article's lead? User:Shem Daimwood ^{User talk:Shem Daimwood} 06:21, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::: I will rearrange and see if there are any objections since the talk page doesn't seem to stir up much discussion. If you object feel free to revert and discuss. 19:42, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Rudi Bakhtiar== Rudi Bakhtiar has been added to the list of CNN personalities (present). Does she now have any regular capacity on the main network? She shouldn't be listed here if she's mainly or exclusively still with Headline News (or, hypothetically, CNN International). User:Samaritan 15:47, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) ... hearing nothing, and having seen in outside accounts only that she's back on CNNHN, I've removed her name. User:Samaritan 02:05, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) == No sourcing, lots of assertations without backup; strange formatting == I've tried to do some independent verification of facts in this article -- it's proving very difficult. The number of homes in which the network was exaggerated by 600,000 homes (that's a LOT of people). There were SEVERAL on line news services prior to Augusto 30, 1995. NY Times was on AOL to name just one. While the phrasing may be accurate -- it's somewhat misleading. The statement that CNN was first to break the news of the September 11th attacks also could not be verified. The long lists of personalities and other items in their current format leave much to be desired. Is there a better way? There's also a bit of the "some say" nonsense in this piece. == Jim Clancy == I think the link "Jim Clancy" in the text doesn't point to CNN's Jim Clancy but to a different one. --User:85.74.164.156 14:19, 21 May 2005 (UTC) == The "asshole.jpg" allegation. == I do not believe this is relevant to the CNN article. A junior-level employee at Netscape being an angsty brat while saving images in Photoshop (then uploading them) is not in any way relevant to allegations of systemic bias at CNN. User:Shem Daimwood ^{User talk:Shem Daimwood} 20:57, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) == "Jonathan Klein oversaw 60 Minutes II during Memogate/Killian documents." == Jonathan Klein was a ''former'' CBS producer when the Killian "memogate" story erupted. He ceased his executive role at CBS in 1998. [http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,785790,00.html]

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