CNNer
An employee of the multinational cable news channel CNN.
Noun
- An employee of the multinational cable news channel CNN.
- “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.” -...
- 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...
- 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...
Origin
From CNN + -er.