ZNN

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ZNN
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TypePrivate
FoundedSeptember 2009
HeadquartersKandor City,Moon,Solar System
Area servedSolar System
Key peopleKaren Corwin
Walter Cronkite (AI)
ServicesNews Life Streams, News Blog
Owner(s)Karen Corwin
Walter Cronkite (AI)



ZNN is the premier news station in Fenspace and one of the more trusted sources of informations by most parts of the general public. It is known for a largely neutral stance between factions, but also to be biased against Haruhi Suzumiya, through not Great Justice itself.

History

ZNN started out as a small news blog in 2009 when Karen Corwin was forced to get into Fenspace as a result of a student prank that went wrong left her biomodded. Being a busty bunny girl she had to work in some odd jobs while in her free time, trying to finish her Master thesis in Journalism and running ZNN, a news blog in the style of Huffington Post.

In early 2010 she was joined by a contributor going by the alias of Walter Wilcox, who provided articles that contained very accurate analysis of current dale and fen situations, sometimes in relation to the past, making readers of ZNN believe that Walter Wilcox was an older fen.

The first big thing that catapulted ZNN into the open and paved its way to the future was the Boskone War and the first daily live stream.

The ‘5 O’Clock Follies’ life stream provided people with a central show to get updates about the conflict in a critical and analytical way that in parts contradict official press releases from Great Justice and Haruhi Suzumiya. ZNN was especially critical about Suzumiya and the way she handled Great Justice.

While that was nothing new the ‘5 O’Clock Follies’ were especially known to be the first appearance of the AI Walter Cronkite in an environment that was largely looking like a CBS new studio during the late 60s to early 70s.

The fact that it was Walter Cronkite, regardless of him being an AI, made the life stream one of the most trusted in Fenspace among the older Fen who grew up with the original and a good amount of younger ones.

Sometimes during the war ZNN got an anonymous donation that allowed Cronkite to get an android body and prepared the station for the future.

The next big event that made ZNN into what it is today was the now legendary ‘5 O’Clock Follies’ life stream from Serenety Con, where Cronkite turned the show into a life commentary of the Battle of Serenity Valley, and earning him the first Fenspace Pulitzer Award.

From there on ZNN was a rising star and began to expand its online and live stream program. The ‘5 O’Clock Follies’ were replaced by the ‘ZNN Evening News’ hosted by Cronkite and ZNN gained the ‘ZNN Morning News’ hosted by Karen Corwin.

Over the next years more specialist shows were added to the raising rooster of ZNN, drawing in advertisement customers, which allowed them to expand more.

Today, ZNN has at least small offices in all major Fen settlements and is one of the places where freelance journalists can get a major publicity for their work.

Trivia

  • In 2017 Günter Wallraff, a German investigative undercover journalist, published a report about the Turnerite habitat of ‘New Stepford’ in the ZNN news blog. It lead to a large scale intervention against the habitat by Great Justice and Space Partol, freeing a large number of biomods and AIs.
  • Maico Tange is known to work for ZNN at times, if she needs the cash.
  • ZNN was named after a CNN expy from ‘NCIS’ and ‘JAG’.