What is the CNN Effect according to Dee Dee Myers?

1.) Succinctly state the THESIS of the tape. Do so in two or three sentences in
declarative form. (Hint: the thesis must reveal why Sander Vanocur groups
together Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy; the thesis must reveal why the
following are clumped together: Nixon, Ford, Johnson, Carter, Bush-the elder.)
Separately, you must include a sentence regarding the overall Vanocur thesis
regarding the television success or failure of William Jefferson Clinton.

2.) Name the two presidents who used television the most effectively, according to
Sander Vancour.

3.) Name the presidents who used television less effectively, according to Sander
Vanocur.

4.) More men (and one woman) interviewed in the film had a single title more often
than any other title mentioned. Their goal is to aid the presidents with the press.
What is this positions name/title?

5.) Overall, what is the position of the film in regards to President Bill Clinton?

6.) Succinctly state the relationship between reporting international affairs and the
Clinton White House, according to the film. Include Vanocurs thesis of how
international affairs reporting radically changed during the Clinton presidential
years.

7.) What is the CNN Effect according to Dee Dee Myers? Also, according to Myers,
how would the presence of CNN at the Kennedy/Castro missle crises and the
Berlin airlift have altered world history?

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