Media 'Nice guy' knows CNN from top to bottom

The guy who is about to be in charge of everything at CNN has been known to burst into song at local restaurants. He wants to put foosball tables near the Atlanta newsroom. And he preaches to employees to have a life outside of CNN.
Most of Walton's 22-year tenure at CNN was in sports news, hardly the network's bread and butter. The task that first won him the eye of higher-ups was launching CNN/Sports Illustrated, an all-sports TV channel and Web site that eventually shut down because it could never get enough cable distribution and advertising dollars.
I learned from CNN/SI that you can't be afraid to take chances and risks.
· It is Elementary, Watson [Access Atlanta]

May a thousand critics bloom
When there was a Soviet Union, there were cultural commissars to give directives: Shostakovich good; Shostakovich bad. And, of course, China had Madame Mao. And for decades, New York City had The New York Times.
We want to be as good at telling our readers the history of CBGB as we are about telling them about the Metropolitan Opera.
· Culture, apparently, is back in style [Observer]