Don't confuse the CNN of the modern entertainment network ("children with incurable disease and lost puppies" — Paddy Chayevsky) with it first few years. The erary years under Ted Turner were glorious. No just around the clock news but excellent commentary and interview shows; I watched Crossfire and Freeman Reports every day. Pat Buc…
Don't confuse the CNN of the modern entertainment network ("children with incurable disease and lost puppies" — Paddy Chayevsky) with it first few years. The erary years under Ted Turner were glorious. No just around the clock news but excellent commentary and interview shows; I watched Crossfire and Freeman Reports every day. Pat Buchanan was a brilliant interviewer and Lou Dobbs was the most professional anchorman ever, showing no trace of the bigotry that defines him now.
The Happy World of Entertainment shows were few, easily skipped, and only took up a small part of their day.
Needless to say, Things Went Bad, The Happy shows started taking more time, the commentary became shallower, Tom Braded got old and Fred Barnes took his place, then took Buchanan's. The rightward shift is more recent and by than television was long since out of my life.
The last decade would have been enormously different with the original CNN.
Don't confuse the CNN of the modern entertainment network ("children with incurable disease and lost puppies" — Paddy Chayevsky) with it first few years. The erary years under Ted Turner were glorious. No just around the clock news but excellent commentary and interview shows; I watched Crossfire and Freeman Reports every day. Pat Buchanan was a brilliant interviewer and Lou Dobbs was the most professional anchorman ever, showing no trace of the bigotry that defines him now.
The Happy World of Entertainment shows were few, easily skipped, and only took up a small part of their day.
Needless to say, Things Went Bad, The Happy shows started taking more time, the commentary became shallower, Tom Braded got old and Fred Barnes took his place, then took Buchanan's. The rightward shift is more recent and by than television was long since out of my life.
The last decade would have been enormously different with the original CNN.