Thirty Years CNN: On The Downfall Of Hard News

CNN, the nation's oldest all-news cable program, marks it's thirty year anniversary on June 1st. For the hard of counting, that means the station, then under the leadership of Ted Turner, started broadcasting in 1981(...or 80. What year is this?) Back then I remember thinking two things...first, that a TV station that would only broadcast straight news twenty four hours a day was a pretty cool thing, and second, that a station that broadcast only straight news twenty four hours a day could never last. I was right on both counts, although it took a lot longer than I figured for the second prediction to come true.