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 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 somehow, against all odds, 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. Mixing
media history, a business adventure story, and great characters, Up All
Night tells the story of a network that succeeded beyond even the
wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder, and
paved the way for the world we live in today.
