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The Whole World Is Watching CNN
Rosen, Jay | May 13, 1991 issue

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For Americans with cable, CNN serves as a video wire service, offering constant updates on the news. It is also an instant delivery system for dramatic footage from around the globe. In a crisis it becomes a kind of video bulletin board where key players can post messages to one another in full view of the world. With its growing international presence, especially in environments traveled by powerful elites, CNN represents a new dimension of an emerging global culture that is already heavily Americanized. In countries where the media are still government controlled, CNN offers an image of an open society-modeled, of course, on the commercial aesthetic of American television.

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CABLE television; TELEVISION broadcasting; BULLETIN boards; BROADCAST journalism; POPULARITY; BUSINESS ethics; UNITED States
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