CHAPTER 4THE LATTICE IN ACTION

In the daily crush of producing CNN’s never-ending cable television news programs, editors Alison Hashimoto and Ben Kaiser had rushed by each other in the hall, but they had never met, let alone worked together. Editors who managed segments of CNN’s torrent of news, Hashimoto and Kaiser each assumed that the only way to move up at the network was to wait for one of the positions above them to open up, then compete for that position. Neither of them gave much thought to applying his or her technical or management skills to jobs producing cartoons or drama at other channels within the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary. They had plenty of ideas for news shows, but neither of them knew a thing about how to convert ...

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