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...Turner, the freewheeling and frankly told adventures of CNN have yielded entertaining books. Newly among them is Seven Days That Shook the World, a story of the Soviet coup that hit the stands in December, from CNN's corporate sibling, Turner Publishing, with photos by the Soviet agency TASS and an introduction by Hedrick Smith. Another recent book is the disjointed but richly anecdotal Live from Baghdad (Doubleday; $22), written by Robert Wiener, producer of CNN's wartime coverage from Iraq. Wiener's final words are "To broadcast, for the first time in history, live pictures to the entire world...
Roughly 12 hours passed before the outside world knew anything. But at 6 a.m. Monday, TASS, the Soviet news agency, reported falsely that Gorbachev was ill and had yielded his powers temporarily to Yanayev. An hour later, TASS announced the formation of the eight-member State Committee for the State of Emergency, ostensibly headed by Yanayev. Actually, this gray and ineffectual apparatchik was only a figurehead; the real power probably was held by Kryuchkov, Pugo and Yazov, plus possibly lesser-known figures. Some of Russian republic president Boris Yeltsin's aides later fingered Baklanov as the chief plotter. The committee...
Tuesday afternoon brought one telltale indication that the junta was losing what grip it had established. After obediently reporting all the pronouncements of the so-called Emergency Committee and little else, TASS suddenly began interspersing them with reports of the burgeoning resistance. For example, it let Soviet citizens know that Aleksei II, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and a signer of a December appeal for a law-and-order crackdown, had come out against the coup...
...policy of openness. He suspended the popular music and information show Vzglyad (View) when it planned to broadcast a discussion of the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who had charged that dictatorship was returning. Kravchenko also forced Interfax, an independent alternative to the official Soviet news agency TASS, out of his headquarters...
When the latest protests flared in the Baltics, central television's newscasters aired little but Communist Party disinformation, reading statements from the so-called national salvation committees accusing the local governments of fascism. The controlled press, TV and TASS all recited the propaganda line on Vilnius last week, reporting that the paratroops acted only to restore order after they had been attacked by Lithuanian snipers. One report from commentator Alexander Nevzorov presented the soldiers as heroes besieged by "ethnic hysteria." The 15 dead, he claimed, had turned out to be victims of road accidents and heart attacks...