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There really isn't a prevailing worldview. We knew from the beginning that we couldn't be just like everybody else, or we'd fail. If we were a carbon copy of CNN or somebody else, why would anybody bother to watch us? We needed a valid but nonetheless distinct product. So I set out to look for stories that could be done in a different way and valid stories that others weren't doing...
...pure speculation because no one wants to appear too hungry for a job, and no one in the Obama camp is in a position to promise anyone anything,” said Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82, an author and analyst for The New Yorker and CNN. “That of course counts for the McCain campaign as well...
...election became the biggest pop-culture event of the year. So the news media--all chasing the same ad dollars in a bad economy--learned the value of putting on a show. Formerly straitlaced outlets gave themselves an attitude makeover to keep up with the blogs and Comedy Central. CNN hired comic D.L. Hughley to do a late-night show, and even the stodgy Associated Press started injecting bloggy potshots and analysis into its wire stories. If you didn't snark, you didn't exist...
...same time, the election and technology bred another, kinder-and- dorkier group of stars: the geekocracy. CNN's John King broke down election returns and poll figures on a touchscreen "magic wall," while NBC guru Chuck Todd crunched numbers on what resembled an electronic Risk board. Meanwhile, a raft of bloggers used the Web's strength--indulging obsessiveness--to create temples of poll analysis. Chief among them was Nate Silver, a baseball-statistics nut at whose FiveThirtyEight.com habitus debate weighting averages and tracking-poll internals until the wee hours...
...NEWS SPOKESMAN, referring to Barkley's notorious gambling habit and his contract as a sports analyst for TNT, which is owned by CNN's parent company...