CNNer

plural CNNers

1. An employee of the multinational cable news channel CNN.

   Ted Turner, it’s said, fines CNNers who use the word “foreign” (we’re all in this together, as he sees it); […]

   1994, Tom Peters, The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person’s Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 71

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   “Why did he do it?” was a common question. Several former CNNers offered an explanation. Reese Schonfeld recalled, “Ted [Turner] has always had an enormous drive for power . . . sex and money was a distant third.”

   1988, R. Serge Denisoff, Inside MTV, Transaction Publishers, published 2009, →ISBN, page 188

   CNN founder Ted Turner, at an Ash Wednesday retirement party for the legendary anchor Bernard Shaw, noticed the ashes on many of his CNNers’ foreheads and said, “What are you, a bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for FOX.”

   2006, James Carville, Paul Begala, Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 64

   His extramarital involvement with Katie [Couric] was a topic of gossip at Harrison’s, the local watering hole favored by CNNers.

   2007, Edward Klein, Katie: The Real Story, Crown Publishers, →ISBN

   Former CNNers who were instrumental in helping me grow, as well as offering me career guidance, include Sue Bunda, Peter Dykstra, Sandy Malcolm, and Henry Mauldin.

   2012, Bonnie Schneider, Extreme Weather: A Guide to Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 231

   While some CNNers say the pair supported Katie [Couric] and that she benefited from their support, others say they led her on.

   2014, Sheila Weller, The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News, Penguin Books, published 2015, →ISBN