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CNN (Cable News Network) was rated "the most believable" of television news sources in a 1990 Times Mirror poll. By the end of the twentieth century it had established itself as the leading news-gathering organization, not only in the United States, but in the world. Although in its early days CNN was a little-respected, self-described "rough around the edges" long-shot, by the 1990s other television news departments feared its domination so much that NBC and Fox decided to compete directly, on cable. Early CNN critics doubted that television could host a 24 hour news channel, but executives soon agreed that there was enough of a market for a number of them. By the end of the twentieth century, CNN's growth into a family of networks—CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNN en Espanõl, CNNfn (financial news), CNN-SI (sports), CNN Airport Network, CNN Radio, and CNN Interactive (Internet)—has positioned it as the first in a now long line of network news shows which feed America's hunger for critical analysis of daily events.
When Peter Arnett appeared live on CNN from Bagdad while the city was under attack by American bombers, the network's reputation as the source of first resort for major international news was cemented.
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