Anecdotally, (and I am American) it was also somewhere between the Gulf War and the OJ Simpson trial that cable changed from some exotic thing that rich people paid for to something a lot of your friends had.
Dude had a cameo in the first Ghostbusters. Larry King was already a known entity. There's a reason CNN picked him up.
Never mind, I got mixed up, you're talking about just CNN.
He also went with Snoop to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles and did not appear to enjoy the food.
I remember there was this CNN guy in Bagdad that reported the air attacks live from there. That definitely put them on the map.
Bernard Shaw and a couple of other reporters from what I remember. I distinctly recall tuning in a few minutes after things started and listening to them hide in the hotel room as Iraqi security started to clear the hotel that all of the reporters were staying in at the time.
Wolf Blitzer, IIRC, did that.
Wolf Blitzer was the CNN reporter at the Pentagon that day. He appears in the first video linked above.