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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. March 7,2001
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
NEW YORK - In exile from the network he put on the air, Reese Schonfeld observes CNN from a distance, and disapproves.
But the growing public perception is that, after years of winning the game it invented, CNN has dropped the ball. Now, with cruelly propitious timing, a new book by Sonfeldland in lands to argue the same point.
CNN co-founder writes critical book
In Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN (Harper Collins), this TV news barnstormer offers an entertaining, sharply personal account of how, fueled by 'Turner's' money and grandiosity, he got CNN off the ground on June 1, 1980, then less than two years later started Headline News. He also tells how it's gone wrong since his abrupt departure soon after.
Maybe CNN is just going through a necessary, even useful transition.
His grievances are many: The widely reported management shake-ups and programming flascos; the 400 layoffs in recent weeks, including marque names like Jim Moret, Greg LaMotte and Flip Spiceland; the lack of clear direction as CNN is upstaged by flashier archivals Fox News Channel and NMSRC — to which CNN scrambles to react.
Me and Ted means to set the record straight.
By Frazier Moore The Associated Press
Engaging in what he calls "anti-revisionism," Sonfield aims to reclaim his rightful place in the CNN saga, from which, in the company's official history, he has long been excluded. (As recently as last week, he was absent from the on-air tribute to departing anchorman Bernard Shaw, whom he hired at CNN's inception.)
Owner Time Warner's merger with AOL has only stoked Schonfeld's concerns for CNN, which, in this colossal new corporate puzzle, becomes a smaller than-ever piece. The entire CNN News Group, including CNN/U.S. and 33 other information services, generates 3 percent of AOL Time Warner's total operating income, according to Porter Bibb, an industry analyst for Technoloqy Partners.
"You hear about how bad CNN was in the beginning," bristles Schonfeld, then as now a looming figure with a wall-to-wall smile that can seem either pleasant or menacing. "The fact is, CNN was at its best, and the ratings were at their best, from the first of the year of '82 until I was fired."
Meanwhile, Schonfeld's fellow CNN mastermind, Ted Turner, also has been dethroned. He lives on, in his own words, as "a figurehead."
Schonfeld. He grins defiantly. "There's no point in looking too deep."
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