How CNN Hurt Journalism
Tom Rosenstiel, in The New Republic (Aug. 22 & 29,1994), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
When the first U.S. bombs and missiles slammed into Iraq in January 1991 to begin the Persian Gulf War, three Cable News Network (CNN) correspondents, holed up in their Baghdad hotel room, provided an exclusive- and riveting-description of the attack. As the hours went by, some 11.5 million homes tuned in to the channel once ridiculed as the 'Chicken Noodle Network." Saddam Hussein's government...