CNN turns 30 today, but the anniversary is bittersweet for the Cable News Network. Its ratings are in a slump and the competition for a constant stream of news seems to be getting even more fierce as the internet attracts viewers away from TV to the screens of smart phones and computers.
Veteran journalist Daniel Schorr has been in the thick of all of these changes over the decades. He was working at CNN during its launch and couldn't imagine what a 24 hour news cycle would look like when he first signed on with Ted Turner.
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DANIEL SCHORR died this morning with his family by his bedside, ion Washington, D.C. Of all the journalists outside of Walter Cronkite, in our modern era, he was the most trusted and most cogent. We sorely miss sanity and the perspective of history, especially in one who has "covered" so much history so long. R.I.P.
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CNN, another corporate shill only in many languages, spewing their missinformation all over the world.
The 30th anniversay of CNN is something to be mourned not celebrated. Cable news has substantially lowered standards for journalism. Cable news is dumbing down our society to death.
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Daniel Schorr is just the bomb!! I listen to his cogent and incisive commentaries on NPR, and I refuse to believe the guy is 93 years old!!!!!! He's a national treasure.
Third option: BP is lying, or incompetent, ... OR BOTH!
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