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Article: Everybody wins: Fox News Channel and CNN are often depicted as desperate rivals locked in a death match. In fact, the cable networks aren't even playing the same game. There's no reason they both can't flourish.
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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The cable news wars are over. Fox News Channel has won. And so, too, has CNN.
That's not the way it looks from the outside, of course. To judge from the press coverage, to read the networks' own corporate cross talk, Fox and CNN are still engaged in slow-motion combat. They are portrayed, and sometimes portray themselves, like the dailies of 1920s Chicago, embattled and battling. CNN snatches Paula Zahn from Fox News; Fox counters by spiriting Greta Van Susteren away from CNN. One side starts running an onscreen crawl, and the other quickly copies the move-and then both squabble over which was first. On more substantive issues, such as scoops and the other guy's ...