CNn (Cable News Network)

The Cable News Network (CNN), a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is a major global news network that delivers 24-hour news around the world via satellite and cable television outlets. Founded in June 1980 by Ted Turner, the network currently has 24 networks and services, including CNN Headline News, CNN/U.S., CNN International, and http://CNN.com.

CNN dominates international news coverage thanks to a series of dramatic events that occurred in the postcold war era, such as the Rwanda genocide in 1994 that killed almost 1 million people, the Chinese government's crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, the collapse of East Germany's Communist regime with the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union.

However, it was with ...