Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media

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June 1, 1980. Ted Turner flipped a switch in a cluttered Atlanta control room and launched CNN — the world's first 24-hour news network. "We won't be signing off until the world ends," he declared. Forty-five years later, CNN's fate is uncertain, trust in media has collapsed, and the line between news and noise has all but disappeared. How did we get here? Breaking the News is an independent podcast project from Bookmark Media that traces the arc from Turner's audacious vision to the fractured media landscape of today — through decades of corporate mergers, digital disruption, the rise of partisan echo chambers, and the political weaponization of the press. This feed features our Deep Cut conversations — in-depth video-podcast interviews with the journalists, executives, and thinkers who lived this transformation from the inside. Our guests include former CNN executives, award-winning correspondents and anchors, bestselling authors, and leading voices on media trus