Thursday, January 1, 2009

2008 Year in Review


Here is a list of some of the major news stories CNN covered in 2008.

January

* Iowa Caucuses
* New Hampshire Primary
* Michigan Primary
* Murder of pregnant marine

February

* Super Tuesday
* Tornados in Kansas, Tennessee etc
* NIU Shootings
* Prince Harry in Afghanistan
* Super Tuesday and other Primaries and Caucuses
* CNN in North Korea (Alina Cho and Christiane Amanpour)


March

* Texas/Ohio/Vermont/Rhode Island primaries and caucus
* Spitzer Sex Scandal
* Mississippi Primary

April

* Patreaus and Crocker testify in DC
* Olympic torch troubles
* Pope visits America
* Polygamy in Texas
* Pennsylvania Primary

May

* Myanmar (Burma) cyclone
* China Earthquake
* Same sex marriage ban lifted in California
* West Virginia primary
* Kentucky/Oregon primaries

June

* Barack Obama becomes Democratic nominee
* Midwest Floods
* Tim Russert dies

July

* American hostages freed from Colombia
* Jesse Jackson hot mic

August


* Edwards sex scandal
* Russia invades Georgia
* Beijing Olympics

September
* Economy crisis
* 1st presidential debate

October

* 2nd and 3rd Presidential debates
* Vice Presidential debate
* Politics, Politics, Politics

November

* Election Day 2008
* CNN Heroes
* Massacre in Mumbai

December

* Planet in Peril Battle Lines
* Blagojevich Scandal
* Detroit 3 Bailout
* Israel/Hamas tensions


CNN has a retrospective page on there website and you can find it here.

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2 comments:

  1. The American Morning blooper reel was hysterical!

    FYI: "News To Me" is doing a recap of the best iReports featured on that show in 2008.

    It's on Saturday and Sunday 1/3 & 1/4 at 7:30pm EST on HLN.

    There's a preview up on CNN.com.

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