There was a continuous succession of major news stories from the time CNN began broadcasting. From the Mount St. Helens eruption and the US presidential election to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Tiananmen Incident and the war in the Persian Gulf, event after event gave CNN the opportunity to make a name for itself.
不知是否真的老天眷顧，CNN 一開播大新聞就接連不斷，從聖海倫火山爆發、美國總統大選，到柏林圍牆倒塌、大陸天安門事件、波斯灣戰爭等，一次次打響了 CNN 的名號。