Write 12 pages with APA style on CNN Effect and the Role of 24-Hour Global News as a Catalyst for Humanitarian Intervention. The CNN images from the Highway of Death (a path of refugee exodus) may have aggravated the end of the war by the Bush Administration. The war reporting rooted CNN firmly as a trustworthy and prestigious news outlet (with a political influence). CNN coverage has helped the administration to have an idea of what is happening. CNN started to influence policymakers for the reason being they were there all the time. During the Gulf War broadcasting, CNN influenced the high-level decision-makers and the public (Zingarelli 2010, p9).

The impact continued throughout the 1990 crises, and other news agencies started to add to the CNN effect. The continued crisis in Somalia through the television images pressed the Bush Administration to take action. The television made a big difference to Somalia because of the daily relaying pictures of famished children (Zingarelli 2010, p9). CNN is a symbol of the impact of constant video news.&nbsp.

CNN effect is simply a theory concerning media-driven intervention and is not supposed to be interpreted as an effect of the CNN channel. The CNN effect was originally spoken during the Gulf War in 1991 and was deliberated as referring to psychological and economic consequences, which rose concurrently during the CNN war coverage. The advancement in technology contributed to instant mass communication and continuous global news coverage. The continuous global coverage minimized the space between nations and people and influenced the entire worldwide awareness. Several studies have focused on the CNN effect, but there is still an issue with the definition of the term (Journiette and Olsson 2008, p3).

The CNN effect theory was proposed by Piers Robinson in 2002, and it suggests that persuasive television images, particularly those of humanitarian crisis, make the United States policymakers intercede in a situation when that condition would not be in the United States interest. The theory displays the significant supremacy of the mass media. The theory suggests that television coverage has three different impacts on humanitarian military involvement.