If the first Iraq War in 1991 made CNN’s reputation, surely its ongoing coverage of the Egypt uprising should cement AJE’s reputation as a world-class broadcaster.
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An Inconvenient Hyperlink
When announcing Al Gore and Tipper Gore’s separation, CNN also inadvertently announced their personal home email address. Ah, those tricky hyperlinks.
CNN: WTF?
WTF CNN? is a delightfully simple site highlighting the tabloid headlines topping CNN’s homepage by comparing it to the far more news-focused Al-Jazeera front-page.
Why can’t we watch American TV online?
Good question: TV news outlets in Australia, the UK and the Middle East allow anyone to stream their content online — so why do all US broadcasters lock the rest of the world out?
Letter from...: Bishkek: a day in the life of a revolution
We, the Soviet-era folks, call the bloody Kyrgyzstan uprising a revolution, but elsewhere in the world people call this madness and riot, writes Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan resident Adis Sydykbaev.
When hipsters and hard news collide: VICE teams with CNN
Hipster bible VICE magazine has signed up content-sharing deal with nerdy news network CNN. Will Anderson Cooper start wearing skinny jeans and ironic t-shirts? Gawker explain what it all means for the media.
Letter from...: Dubai: the march towards conservatism
Amongst expatriates in Dubai, the gossip mill grinds on with reports that Abu Dhabi is putting the pressure on the government to become more conservative as it helps bail it out.
CNN journalist: Detained in China over Obama tshirt
CNN correspondent Emily Chang tells of being detained for two hours by Chinese police after she bought a souvenir tshirt featuring Barack Obama in a Red Army uniform.
False praise for that lunatic and bastard Bob Plasto
Filmmakers Leonard Lee and David Millikan recall what it was like working with the late Bob Plasto. Perhaps not as glowing as other reviews of the filmmaker.
How Ted Turner lost CNN, Jane Fonda and $7 billion
An interview with (former) media mogul Ted Turner, who says he feels “like a dummy” for selling his cable TV channels, which are now worth billions, but he doesn’t have enough cash to get back into the media business.
White House doesn’t wear the Fox hat
Travelling through the US, Simon Burrow reports on the battle of Fox News vs. the White House. Has open war broken out between old and new media?
Pants on fire: Fox News vs. CNN
Fox News recently took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post, claiming all other news networks failed to cover recent right-wing protests in DC. CNN was not amused. Things have gone downhill from there…
CNN’s Rick Sanchez: You lie, Fox News!
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez hits back hard at Fox News’ claims the network didn’t cover the 9/12 Tea Party protests in Washington.
Syndicated news goes A La Carte
CNN’s wire service, CNN Wire, is now offering newspaper editors the chance to buy individual stories for syndication — at $199 a pop. It’s like ordering off a menu instead of hiring a personal chef.
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself (and Time Warner)
YouTube will now be able to legally show clips of shows from CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TNT and Time Warner Television thanks to a new deal made with Time Warner. Full length episodes won’t be available though.
Cable news reaches new lows with “beer summit” countdown
US cable news networks love a good gimmick — especially if it involves the shameless use of over-the-top graphics and animations — but MSNBC and CNN took the cake today, with both networks running live countdown clocks to Obama’s over-hyped “beer summit”.
CNN respond to #CNNFail criticism
CNN have responded to widespread criticism on Twitter that they failed to adequately cover the post-election riots in Iran with a highlights package of exactly what they did cover.
It’s not easy being green: the Iran election tweeted
How the Twitterverse captured the drama in Tehran.
#CNNFail: Twitterverse slams CNN’s Iran coverage 
Military attorney: Waterboarding just the “tip of the iceberg”
A military attorney who represented a former Guantanamo detainee tells CNN that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of torture in the prison.
Twitter goes down, CNN’s Rick Sanchez freaks out
Twitter went down for some scheduled maintenance during CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s show. He didn’t cope too well.
CNN struggles on the middle path
With Fox and MSNBC veering to the right and left respectively, CNN are struggling to pull the ratings by steering a middle ideological path.
The death of journalism excellence
Journalism isn’t dead — but it’s not very good, either.
Media briefs: ITV to deliver Murdoch/Sky killer blow?
The Murdochs and BSkyB have already taken a bath on the 17.9% of ITV they bought a couple of years ago: But could ITV be about to deliver a killer blow to Sky and Murdoch?
And the Wankley Award goes to… the CNN hologram
The US election produced many a bizarre media moment but the moment of triumph, the froth on a cold one, came via CNN’s “hologram” technology during Wednesday’s coverage of Election Day, writes”Simon Huggins.
