The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of
24-hour news
How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three
national networks to the age of 24-hour news channels and constantly
breaking news? The answer--thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of
cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion
newbies--can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in
Atlanta. Because it was there, in the summer of 1980, that this motley
crew launched CNN.
Lisa Napoli's Up All Night is an entertaining inside look at the
founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was
delivered and consumed, and succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings
of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder. Mixing media history, a
business adventure story, and great characters, this is a fun book on
the making of the world we live in now.