CNNerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

CNNer (複数形 CNNers)

1. An employee of the multinational cable news channel CNN.
   • 1988, R. Serge Denisoff, Inside MTV, Transaction Publishers, published 2009, →ISBN, page 188:

     “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.”

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

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

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

     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.”

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

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

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

   • 2016, Richard Quest, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, Berkley, →ISBN:

     CNNers anywhere in the world could report developments quickly to anyone network-wide who had an interest in the story (the alias still exists, for any new details).

   • 2018, David Ariosto, This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:

     In just my first week, I heard stories of past CNNers falling in love with Cubans and being quickly discarded by their would-be Cuban life mates shortly after they arrived in the States.

   • 2019, Jeffrey Lord, Swamp Wars: Donald Trump and the New American Populism vs. The Old Order, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

     But it wasn’t just a lot of my fellow CNNers who were convinced that Hillary Clinton was going to carry the state as part of what came to be called the “blue wall”—Northeastern and Midwestern industrial states that were presumed to be in the Democratic (Clinton) corner.

   • 2020, Maria Hinojosa, Once I Was You: A Memoir, Atria Paperback, published 2021, →ISBN, page 170:

     The way old-time CNNers saw it, hiring Rick Kaplan away from ABC News was the clearest message that things were not going to stay the same.

   • 2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Graywolf Press, →ISBN:

     Some of these Dems and CNNers will tell you I said nigger, but I didn’t.