Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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cultural/ intellectual impact:

1). resource(book)- The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati
Until CNN(1980) news was only broad casted an hour, three times a day. A half hour consisted of local news and another half hour consisted national news. 
~Let people watch news anytime of the day. This benefited people in many ways, such as when news unfolded they had easy access.  
'The CNN effect" helped everyone; in less then a year 93 million people had access to it.
The first Gulf War(1990-1991), the CNN channel was the only American station able to broadcast live reports directly from Iraq. CNN ratings went flying up.

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