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Via Time Warner Newsroom
CNN Digital Network Maintains No.1 Position for 10th Consecutive Month

The CNN Digital Network maintained its No. 1 ranking in total minutes for the month of April among all News and Information properties, ranking ahead of Wikipedia, Yahoo! News, MSNBC Digital Network and Weather Channel. This is a distinction CNN Digital has achieved for the last 10 months.

In April, CNN.com’s award-winning reporting and multimedia storytelling again kept the site’s users informed and engaged about not only what is happening on the global stage but also in their own communities. News events in April that kept users with CNN.com longer than any other news and information site on the Web range from the dramatic Democratic presidential primary race to the housing crunch and escalating gas prices. Additionally CNN.com provided extensive coverage of stories of personal travail and triumph related to events including the war in Iraq and World Autism Day.
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Via Miami Herald
CNN’s queen of quirk keeps her sense of humor — even when viewers don’t
By GLENN GARVIN

Oh, man. One little joke about Barack Obama and that Middle Eastern fellow with the rhyming name, and her inbox is piled high with squawky offended e-mail. It’s enough to make Jeanne Moos wish she were back interviewing three-legged pantyhose or even two-headed turtles.

‘’I'm used to doing dog stories,'’ says CNN’s queen of quirk, shaking her head as she leafs through outraged denunciations ranging from not particularly bright to how low can you sink? “Dogs don’t write in. I’ve never gotten any angry e-mails from dogs.'’

If there’s one lesson Moos has learned in the 12 months since becoming a regular on Situation Room, the network’s daily campaign roundup, it’s that political activists have much less of a sense of humor than the average canine. Whether she’s musing on John McCain’s difficulties using a teleprompter or Hillary Clinton’s befuddlement at the technology of convenience-store coffee machines, Moos has drawn almost daily fire.

This morning’s e-blizzard of insults was prompted by a Moos piece on body language of the various candidates — particularly their strange, compulsive habit of pointing off into the distance while addressing the crowds at campaign rallies.

SCATHING CRITICISM

‘’Since we usually can’t see who the candidates are pointing at,'’ Moos intoned during a voiceover, ‘’we’ll just have to use our imagination.'’ Footage of Clinton waving her finger in the air was intercut with her husband’s former Oval Office playmate Monica Lewinsky; of McCain, with his conservative bte noir Ann Coulter; and Obama, with the sound-alike with whom he is perpetually entangled in verbal slips by TV anchormen, Osama bin Laden.
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