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Marshall was not forgotten by any means,
certainly not among communications theorists and
people like that, but he was discredited and he was
very much overshadowed. Now in the 1990s a
number of people have rediscovered him, I think,
because a number of the things he said, which
where not quite so true when he said them, are
much more true now. I would say that CNN is
something that all of us look at from time to time
and most of us think about from time to time. It
was born the year Marshall died—1980. Anyway,
people look at CNN and they realize they are
watching something live in Tiananmen Square; they
are watching the Berlin Wall fall; they are watching