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BREAKING NEWS
TheCNN
Hoy en día, es dificil imaginar un acontecimiento de
mínima importancia que no quede capturado en video Y
compartido al momento. En gran parte, este apetito por
las noticias de última hora es responsabilidad de la CNN.
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~ GLOSSARY
1 network: cadena
2 to show: mostrar
3 to update: actualizar
4 tounfold:
desarrollar
5 brainchild: creación
6 to lose: perder
7 to deny: denegar
8 nevertheless: sin
embargo
9 coverage: cobertura
10 space shuttle:
lanzadera espacial
11 to take off:
despegar
12 by chance: por
casualidad
13 came to be: se
convirtió
14 raw: pura. cruda
15 to fall down: caer
16 well: pozo
17 around-the-clock:
las 24 horas del día
18 rescue effort:
operaciones de
rescate
19 news outlet: medio
de comunicación
20 to grow: crecer
21 anchors:
presentadores
22 household: familiar
23 to source: proveer
24 to deliver: publicar
25 newsworthy
footage: imágenes
noticia bles
14 fou rteen
C
NN - theacronymofCableNews
June 1980 at 6pm Eastern Stand-
ard T,me (EST). While other TV channels
showed 2 a summary of the news in short
segments during the day, CNN was the
first 24-hour news channel in the world.
continuously upda~ g 3 viewers as events
unfolded• . The t,rainchild • of business-
man Ted Turner, in the early years CNN
lost 6 so much money that it was nick-
named the -aiTcken Noodle Network "
and its journalists were denied7 access
to the White House. Nev~ ss 8 , Turn-
er remained optimistic and in 1985 CNN
lnternational was launched.
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In 1986, CNN was the only station to film
live ~overage9 of the NASA s¡:,ace shut-
~ •• Challenger, which took off11 and
then dramatically exploded. killing ali
seven of its crew. Bychance 11 , a promo-
tional video was being made in the CNN
newsroom. Viewers saw in real time the
shocked yet professional reactions of its
staff
A REAL LIFE THRILLER
This introduced what ~ •l called
'theCNN effecf; the transformationof me-
diated digestible news into raw'-4, unpre-
dictable popularexperience. In 1987. when
eighteen -month-old Jessica McClure fell
down•s a well 16 in Midland. Texas, CNN
brought aroond-the-clock17coverage of
the 56-hour rescue effort 18 to audiences
worldwide. During the Gulf War in 1991, it
was the only news outlet19 communicat-
ing from inside Baghdad as the Americans
began their bombing campaign .
LARRY KIHG LIVE
CNN grew 20 to be one of the largest
news organisations, reaching a hundred
million homes in the US and 265 mi Ilion
abroad. Reporters and anchors 21 beca me
household 22 names; fortwenty-fiveyears,
CNN's Larry King dom inated the prime-
time talk show scene with interviews of
celebrities, politicians and prominent
business people.
RIVALS
By the mid 90s, CNN had competition:
24-hour news stations Fox and MSNBC
beca me national rivals, while BBC World
News and Al Jazeera covered internation-
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al stories. The interne! and smartphones
radically accelerated the sourcing 2l and
d ~IÍ'.'e__i: y 24 of news; by the mid - 2000s
non - profess ionals were posting vast
quantities of newsworthy footage 25 and
commentary on social media siles, espe-
ciallyTwitter.
SATURATED
Today, young people are tur ~ g off 26 tra-
ditional newssources. CNN finds itdifficult
to attract viewers, while Fox has won the
war when it comes toan older American
audience. Many of uscomplain of the con-
fusing and sometimes contradictory in -
formation overload 27, but the truth is that,
thanks to the CNN effect, we consume.
communicate and even create news with
more voracity than ever before. 0
Eastern Standud Time (EST). Hora estándar del
este. Estados Unidos se divide en cuatro husos
horanos solo en el continente de Norteaménca,
nueve contando Alaska, Hawali y los terrítonos de
ultramar La hora EST corresponde a la de la costa
atlántica, y es de seis horas menos que la española
Entre la hora del este y la de la costa del Pacifico
(entre ciudades como Nueva York o Los Angeles,
por ejemplo) eX1ste una diferencia de tres horas.
Chicken Noodle Networlt. La Cadena de los
Fideos de Potlo. Este témuno peyorativo se
aprovechaba de las siglas de la cadena para denotar
que se trataba de un producto de baJa calidad al
compararlo con esa clase de hdeos instantáneos.
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Clockwise from main photo:
the CNN headquarters in
1 Atlanta; breaking news on
the terrorist attack on New
\~I . • York's World Trade Center
on September 11, 2001; Ted
1 Turner and his then-wife
Jane Fonda in 1999; the CNN
website; larry King Uve in
2005.
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26 to tum off: apagar
27 overload:
saturación
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