The hostage crisis was huge, they even preempted the NFL coverage for the rest of the day that Sunday afternoon, maybe three times in TV history that has occurred?
They cancelled the first week of the 1978 NFL TV coverage completely for the Pope JP I inauguration, he died like a month later.
and the hostage topic was important for awhile, and the 11:30pm slot was empty for news up against Johnny
but the hotness came to an end and it lasts just an hour at most
not sure when CNN started pretending it had breaking news, that isn't, every 10 minutes 24/7
As well CNN for awhile had balanced discussion, Bob Novak was a Conservative mainstay on CNN along with other right wing views
it all ended when Carville showed up like a braying moron with so-is-your-mama retorts all the time....