![]() ![]() Over the years, CNN has been labeled part of the so-called “Leftist media” while Fox (its most major competitor today) is the bastion of the right-wing.ĬNN and its competitors are facing a huge challenge now that people are moving away from getting their news on TV to getting it on the internet. It wouldn’t be a complete story without talking a little about bias. According to some reports, CNN’s audience doubled during this time period as more and more people found it prudent to watch the news outside of the normal once-a-day cycle that most were used to at the time. Nothing brings in the ratings like war, so it isn’t surprising that CNN gained real traction during the First Gulf War and the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Because they were providing around-the-clock news coverage, CNN was often able to break stories long before their network counterparts. In 1983, Turner bought Satellite News Network (owned by ABC), which was CNN’s biggest competitor. Robert Turner was the founder of the Network, ignored the criticism and focused on building up CNN’s news bureaus around the world and buying up competitors. Often times it was called “Chicken Noodle Network” as it frequently lost money. CNN itself has a broad reach internationally with CNN International.ĬNN didn’t have respect as a news organization in 1980. As technology advanced in other countries, specifically in Europe and Asia, so did the spread of 24-hour news. This isn’t completely a US phenomenon either. Channels like FOX News Channel, MSNBC, BBC, and Al Jazeera have all taken spots on our cable boxes. Since its introduction, CNN has become just one of several channels that cater to the news-obsessed culture that it helped create in the 1980s and 90s. Some historians argue that the creation of news networks like CNN and The Weather Channel (created May 2, 1982) drove more people to get paid cable instead of relying on over-the-air programming and news. By the time 1995 rolled around, 7 out of 10 households had cable access. By 1985, around 50 million Americans had cable in their house, which (considering the population at the time) was around 21%. This was helped by the increase in the number of people who had access to cable in the mid-1980s and 1990s. And while CNN’s launch would be small (it was only available to around 2 million households in 1980), it grew incredibly quickly over the course of the next decades. These spots were dominated by NBC, CBS, and ABC. Prior to the launch of CNN, television news (specifically national news), was limited to a once-a-day, 30-minute spot in the evening. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, its first news item was about the assassination of civil rights leader, Vernon Jordan. However, it wasn’t all that long ago that in order to get news, people had to wait for their newspaper or their once-a-day local news broadcasts either on TV or on all-day news radio.Įverything changed on June 1st, 1980, when CNN (which stands for Cable News Network) started to broadcast news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At the same time, he has demonized CNN in comments and tweets as a purveyor of “fake news.” (For the record, both networks reject the notion that they are pro- or anti-Trump, or that they are “liberal” or “conservative.The age of the 24-hour news cycle seems like it has been around forever. He often praises Fox and its hosts, and he grants the network periodic interviews. The president has certainly stoked the perception that there are pro- and anti-Trump factions in the news media, singling out CNN and Fox in particular. ![]() Trump, an avid TV news watcher who has added fuel to the CNN/Fox News fire. After Ingraham criticized National Basketball Association superstars LeBron James and Kevin Durant for expressing their political opinions (“Shut up and dribble,” she said), CNN aired a news segment about her comments in which host Brooke Baldwin pointed out that Fox sometimes gives celebrities such as Kid Rock, Chuck Norris and Phil Robertson a platform for their political opinions. Hannity had the National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch on his program to talk about her experience on the CNN broadcast an on-screen banner said she had been “heckled, interrupted and called a ‘murderer’ ” at the event.įor its part, CNN has frequently found something newsworthy in whatever Fox’s host are opining about. CNN and Fox News attack each other on a daily, often hourly basis, and Washington Post’s Paul Farhi wrote about how the longtime cable news rivalry has become as intense as it’s ever been since Fox News launched more than 21 years ago.įox, for example, aired multiple clips of CNN’s “town hall” about gun violence last week, using it to call out “liberal” media bias in the debate over gun control.
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