This, so much: CNN’s unexpected success in covering the Gulf War led to an American love affair with twenty-four-hour-a-day news, but, only a decade later, a CNN foreign correspondent told Ken Auletta, when he was working on a biography of Ted Turner, that news editors at the network ” ‘equate serious with boring.’ ” Executives told him that “there was no big news overseas,” which Auletta interpreted as another way of saying that “in order to get ratings, we need wars or some kind of crisis.” Of course, there are crises all the time, everywhere, but to cover them properly … Continue reading Make the Decisions, CNN