Articles tagged "cnn"

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Lou Dobbs has become CNN’s lighting rod

by Jonathan Storm [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Aug.09] :. PASADENA, Calif. — “We’re the only news network based on reporting,” CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein said, almost as an aside, as his network was winding up a session at the TV...

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CNN’s new face ushers in a new political era

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[19.Nov.08] :. The newest member of the CNN family is also its unlikeliest. D.L. Hughley dropped out of high school, joined a Los Angeles gang, then turned his life around with a comedic career based on making...

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In an election year marked by high drama and surprises, political pundits become must-see TV

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Oct.08] :. Charges of celebrity and rock-star royalty have arced through the 2008 presidential election like lightning in a spring downpour. But it’s not just the candidates who’ve morphed from pols...

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CNN’s queen of quirk, Jeanne Moos, keeps her sense of humor

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[6.Jun.08] :. Oh, man. One little joke about Barack Obama and that Middle Eastern fellow with the rhyming name, and her inbox is piled high with squawky offended e-mail. It’s enough to make Jeanne Moos wish...

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Lifting the Veil

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Sep.07] :. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy counters George Bush's "confident" display with her own observations: "Now we've come back six years later," she narrates, "to ask if life for women in Afghanistan is any better in a liberated country."

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‘God’s Warriors’: CNN’s Amanpour looks at ‘zealots’

by Joanne Weintraub [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Aug.07] :. They’ve been called radicals, militants or zealots. Christiane Amanpour calls them “God’s Warriors.” The CNN reporter’s three-part series on the subject, scheduled to...

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CNN/YouTube debates to feature user-generated content

by Frank Davies [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[15.Jun.07] :. WASHINGTON - User-generated video invades a presidential debate for the first time next month in an experiment in streaming democracy that its sponsors, CNN and YouTube, say will shake up a staid...