CNN began a revolution in television with the advent of its 24-hour cable news channel out of Atlanta in 1980, challenging the three major television networks headquartered in New York that shaped the perception of current events by Americans. This revolution was to take the world by storm during the next decade as satellite and cable television provided an alternative, if not the only, source of information for people throughout the world. With satellites over 22,400 feet above the earths surface beaming their signal like ...
Read More
CNN began a revolution in television with the advent of its 24-hour cable news channel out of Atlanta in 1980, challenging the three major television networks headquartered in New York that shaped the perception of current events by Americans. This revolution was to take the world by storm during the next decade as satellite and cable television provided an alternative, if not the only, source of information for people throughout the world. With satellites over 22,400 feet above the earths surface beaming their signal like sunshine to the earth, media and telecommunications monopolies and governments could no longer control the programming and flow of information in their countries. Each satellite receive dish that appeared, legally or illegally, created an appetite for more and more information about the rest of the world. Access to this information became necessary to compete economically with others. Within a decade, a flood of information became available to people throughout the world, and no leader of government would be without CNN. When Gorbachev and Reagan met in Iceland each had CNN to monitor the world.This global information revolution led by CNN had something to do with the way governments changed or collapsed, the way the Berlin Wall fell, and even the reaction to globalization by Islamic terrorists that led to 9/11. Americans will forever document the change with images of Bernard Shaw broadcasting from under a bed in a Baghdad hotel during the Gulf War in 1991.Sidney Pikes story is the most thorough chronicle of these changes that exists. As he met with media and government leaders around the world, trying to sell CNN programming, he faced the forces that stimulated thechanges and those which offered resistance to them. Sidney Pike was a pioneer and evangelist for the global
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Inch tear to the top left corner of the jacket. Some light faded marks to both sides. Fine to read throughout. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 540 p. Contains: Illustrations.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half title page. (television producers and directors, united states, biography, cable news network )