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How Cable News Came To Be

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After Sept. 11th, CNN used the “breaking news” ticker across the bottom of the screen and it never went away — an example of the “real-time” news style the network championed that is now commonplace. Lisa Napoli joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events. Her book is “Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News.”