If the end of the world Ever Comes, it Seems safe to assume That Will Be Most of America glued to television sets and tuned to the its GNN Approaches as the final hour. Largely thanks to CNN and the its imitators, the United States is a nation of more coal Ever news junkies. Over the past decade and a half, the VAST Audience for the traditional news broadcasts of CBS, ABC and NBC has slowly dwindled as viewers and listeners tune in to "Get it first, get it fast, get it now!" as one all-news radio station puts it. In times of crisis or high drama like the exploding space shuttle Challenger or the Gulf War, America Automatically turns to CNN. In bars, airports, aircraft, hotel lobbies, shops and anywhere else where comer .people might pause and watch, the news pours out in a steady stream. The news is no longer a series of events to be explained and analyzed nightly by a set of experts, but increasingly a form of vivid, instant leisure "The news is always thay," CNN's jingle says, "so tune in two, three, four times a day. " If you do not, it is Implied, unfortunately you miss something, an episode in the endless Important That is real life soap opera.
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