CNN

CNN stands for Cable News Network. It is a 24-hour, English language news channel, the first in the world when it launched in 1980. CNN’s primary competitor in the U.S. is Fox News Channel, or FNC, while its primary worldwide competitor (for CNN International) is BBC World News. CNN also operates CNN Headline News, which provides a 30-minute repeating cycle of news headlines.

CNN rose to prominence for U.S. audiences during the 1991 Gulf War, when they were able to provide exclusive images from inside Iraq. CNN was also the first network to report on the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.

In addition to straight news reporting, CNN now features many popular commentators, including Larry King, Lou Dobbs, and Anderson Cooper.

CNN features many blogs, including Business 360, Political Ticker, AC360, and Cafferty File.

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  by gearheadgal / on Dec 21, 2009
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  by sussman / on Dec 10, 2009
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  CNN and YouTube are teaming up to present a live climate change debate in honor of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen this month.
  by bryanmckay / on Dec 7, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “CNN”

• DeMint defends blocking appointment of TSA chief

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 815
  Washington (CNN) - Elected officials on Capitol Hill are planning to hold hearings in January to investigate the safety gaps in airline security, made more pronounced since the attempted bombing over Detroit on Christmas Day. But one important officeholder, the administrator of the Transportation Security ...
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• Intriguing people for December 29, 2009 (CNN joins sociopath Andy Martins smear of GOP candidate)

  
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  Mark Kirk The Illinois congressman, now the front-runner in the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate, is facing an attack ad that questions his sexual orientation. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that opponent Andy Martin, already controversial for previous remarks about Barack Obama, has run for offices in ...
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• CNN/Opinion Research Poll – December 16-20 – African-American Views of Obama, Race Relations

  
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  TOPICS: Race relations, Barack Obama Full results (pdf)
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• Satellite TV For PC Elite Edition Review

  
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• Why a Google Slate Could Dominate

  
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• The Situation in The Situation Room

  
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  Hilarious comic involving The Situation from The Jersey Shore coming into Wolf Blitzer’s Situation room. I thought this was hilarious.
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• US plane bomber wanted to study sharia in Yemen – Reuters

  
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  CBC.ca US plane bomber wanted to study sharia in Yemen Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a US passenger plane told his parents he wanted to study Islamic sharia law in Yemen shortly before cutting off contact with them, the Nigerian government said on Tuesday. ...
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• Somali pirates hijack UK ship, release another – Xinhua

  
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  MiamiHerald.com Somali pirates hijack UK ship, release another Xinhua NAIROBI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A Singaporean-flagged container ship was released by Somali pirates while a UK-flagged chemical tanker was hijacked, a regional maritime official confirmed on Tuesday. Andrew Mwangura, East Africa ...
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• Joy Behar: Sarah Palin’s ‘Base Doesn’t Even Read’

  
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  Joy Behar expressed confusion about the success of Sarah Palins book because, according to the CNN Headline News/ABC talk show host, a lot of the former governors "base doesnt even read." Behar slammed Palin, as well as Glenn Beck, Carrie Prejean and other conservatives  during her "look back at 2009" ...
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• Convenient chain of events

  
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  Call me a skeptic but the media hype surrounding Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Flight 253 seems to be missing some very disturbing underlying details.“Laurie and I were sitting near the boarding gate, sitting on the floor, there weren’t any seats to sit in. And I saw two men. They caught my eye because they ...
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• MSNBC Criticized For Running Doc-Block During Breaking Terrorism Story

  
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  NEW YORK — MSNBC spent considerable time Monday reporting on the aftermath of an attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, but its executives didn’t want to talk about why the story received little attention as it was breaking. Competitors CNN and Fox News Channel gave much more extensive ...
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• Western counter-terrorism help ‘not enough for Yemen’ – BBC News

  
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  The Guardian Western counter-terrorism help not enough for Yemen BBC News Yemen has said it is not getting enough support from the West to tackle al-Qaeda, as details emerge of the suspected US jet bombers time there. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told the BBC that Yemen had the will and ...
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• New Rules Called “Pathetic,” Misdirected – CBS News

  
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  Washington Post New Rules Called "Pathetic," Misdirected CBS News (CBS) CBS News Travel Correspondent Peter Greenberg will do occasional columns for CBSNews.com. Here, he comments on changes implemented in airline security procedures after the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 incident. Suffice is to ...
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• Ben Stein Accuses Ron Paul Of “Anti-Semitic Argument” On Larry King

  
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  A discussion of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , and terrorism in general, turned into a heated debate between two Republicans on Larry King Live last night. Ben Stein and Rep. Ron Paul displayed their very different takes on foreign policy – until Stein called Paul’s argument “anti-Semitic” and the ...
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• AT&T site appears to resume iPhone sales in NYC

  
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  If you live in New York City and want to buy an iPhone as a post-Christmas treat, you may run into some roadblocks.
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• Mozilla pushes back Firefox deadlines

  
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  Mozilla wont make a 2009 deadline for releasing Firefox 3.6 and is giving itself more time to complete a major update to the popular Web browser, version 4.0.
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• Its the incompetence, stupid

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Janet Napolitano is impressed with Janet Napolitanos work. In an instantly notorious statement on CNN over the weekend, the Homeland Security secretary said "the system worked" when a man boarded a Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with explosives in his underwear that he couldnt quite manage to ignite. ...
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• Nigeria May Fire Security Workers Over Bomb Suspect, Trust Says – Bloomberg

  
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  CBC.ca Nigeria May Fire Security Workers Over Bomb Suspect, Trust Says Bloomberg Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria may fire security officials for failing to stop the man suspected of allegedly trying to blow up a US plane over Detroit on Dec. 25 from traveling out of the country, the Daily Trust ...
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• China Executes British Citizen – Voice of America

  
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  Globe and Mail China Executes British Citizen Voice of America Photo: AP China has executed a British man with reported mental health problems for drug smuggling, despite last minute appeals by the British government and his relatives. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned Akmal Shaikhs ...
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• President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells – Times Online

  
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  Reuters President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells Times Online President Obama vowed to track down and destroy terror cells all over the world last night as he finally ended his silence over a failed Christmas Day plot to blow up an American passenger jet. The White House said Mr ...
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