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25 years of rolling news

CNN celebrates on June 1st (May 2005)

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NickyS Founding member
It's 25 years since CNN launched on the 1st June 1980. There is an interesting article in today's The Guide in The Guardian. It has interviews with Kay Burley, Jon Sopel, Brent Sadler, Jeremy Thompson, Alastair Stewart and Jane Hill on what rolling news is like. It also mentions special programmes on CNN at 2pm and 8pm on Wednesday called Defining Moments - should be interesting. I've done the CNN tour in New York which shows how they really did start it all off and which these days so many of us on this forum spend our time talking about.
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william Founding member
Indeed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,1492853,00.html
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Breakfast News
Press Gazette article on CNN 25
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Davidjb Founding member
william posted:


Are they allowed swear words like that in the articles???
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cat
Of course they are.

In fact, the Guardian holds the world record for amount of swear words in one newspaper in a year.
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Equidem
cat posted:
Of course they are.

In fact, the Guardian holds the world record for amount of swear words in one newspaper in a year.


You mean online, or in uncensored print?

"Fúck" as opposed to "F***" ?
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Blake Connolly Founding member
In print.

Broadsheets don't usually censor language in the way tabloids do.
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Moz
Quote:
Jane Hill BBC News 24
9/11, 2001

"When the first plane hit the World Trade Centre, everyone in the newsroom was asking, 'How in God's name did they let a plane get into the airspace so near to the twin towers?' Our business presenter was on air at the time, and, bless him, he started talking about the business angle, because he knew a lot about what went on inside the twin towers.

Then we all saw that little dot in the sky. I said, 'Is that a news helicopter that has gone a bit close to get the pictures?' And then of course we all realised. I ran into makeup. I was absolutely stunned. When I got on air a few minutes later, I remember Brian Hanrahan, our diplomatic editor, being plonked in the chair next to me. There isn't a more experienced man in the BBC. And Brian looked at the pictures and said: 'My God, it's like The War of the Worlds.'"

Good piece from Jane there.

Why was the business news on when the planes hit? Wasn't it at about 2.30pm our time? And who took over from them - Jane & who else?
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Magoo
Equidem posted:
cat posted:
Of course they are.

In fact, the Guardian holds the world record for amount of swear words in one newspaper in a year.


You mean online, or in uncensored print?

"****" as opposed to "F***" ?


That''s right. I've got a copy of the editorial guidelines for the Observer and the Guardian, and it says that all swearwords from s*** to c*** should be printed in their entirety, as the blacked out words just draw attention to them.
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Inspector Sands
Moz posted:
Quote:
Jane Hill BBC News 24
9/11, 2001

"When the first plane hit the World Trade Centre, everyone in the newsroom was asking, 'How in God's name did they let a plane get into the airspace so near to the twin towers?' Our business presenter was on air at the time, and, bless him, he started talking about the business angle, because he knew a lot about what went on inside the twin towers.

Then we all saw that little dot in the sky. I said, 'Is that a news helicopter that has gone a bit close to get the pictures?' And then of course we all realised. I ran into makeup. I was absolutely stunned. When I got on air a few minutes later, I remember Brian Hanrahan, our diplomatic editor, being plonked in the chair next to me. There isn't a more experienced man in the BBC. And Brian looked at the pictures and said: 'My God, it's like The War of the Worlds.'"

Good piece from Jane there.

Why was the business news on when the planes hit? Wasn't it at about 2.30pm our time? And who took over from them - Jane & who else?


The first one was at about 1:45 our time. What tends to be forgotten now is that, of course, there wasn't any footage of the first plane crash and no normal reason for cameras to be pointed at the building. The story wasn't covered straight away, everything was continuing as usual until the first pictures of smoke from the tower appeared on the line from the US. At first it was covered as just 'some interesting pictures coming in from New York' .... at that point it was just a fire, possibly caused by a light plane crash.
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Breakfast News
Moz posted:
Quote:
Jane Hill BBC News 24
9/11, 2001

"When the first plane hit the World Trade Centre, everyone in the newsroom was asking, 'How in God's name did they let a plane get into the airspace so near to the twin towers?' Our business presenter was on air at the time, and, bless him, he started talking about the business angle, because he knew a lot about what went on inside the twin towers.

Then we all saw that little dot in the sky. I said, 'Is that a news helicopter that has gone a bit close to get the pictures?' And then of course we all realised. I ran into makeup. I was absolutely stunned. When I got on air a few minutes later, I remember Brian Hanrahan, our diplomatic editor, being plonked in the chair next to me. There isn't a more experienced man in the BBC. And Brian looked at the pictures and said: 'My God, it's like The War of the Worlds.'"

Good piece from Jane there.

Why was the business news on when the planes hit? Wasn't it at about 2.30pm our time? And who took over from them - Jane & who else?


Was it not John Nicholson, who I think got an award for his coverage.
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Moz
Inspector Sands posted:
The first one was at about 1:45 our time.

So did News 24 used to have a business programme at 1:45pm back then? It certainly sounds like as Jane says she had to go to make-up quickly and get on air.

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