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Ted Turner & CNN

Posted by: | October 29, 2012 | No Comment |

Launched on June 1, 1980 Ted Turner’s Cable News Network (CNN) continued people’sĀ innateĀ desire for news. CNN was the first 24-hour cable news program. CNN gave us “the sights as well as the sounds of the news became available 24 hours a day,” as Mitchell Stephens notes in his book “A History of the News.” Before […]

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