Cary Brown

Review of CNN Greece

Durning this tour you will learn how news is gathe...

Durning this tour you will learn how news is gathered and presented. The guided tour begins after entering a well-guarded, video recorded, magnetically protected entrance. Next, you step upon the world's longest freestanding escalator, almost 200 feet up. Steeping off, your picture is taken with props, in front of a green screen. After a short explanation of TV news production, the tour guide leads the group down several stairways, past viewing windows looking in on news rooms, on air studios and an editing room. Pictures and news memorabilia line the walls. Guards follow the group throughout the tour. No pictures are allowed after you leave the demo area. You are never allowed into offices or studios. A package of the green screen photos, taken fifty minutes earlier, with you costumed as a "CNN reporter," are sold at the end of the tour for $25.00 to $35.00us. Wheelchair accessible by elevator with prior notice. There are no bathrooms available during the tour. The bathrooms are located on the entrance floor and are wheelchair accessible. Be sure to see the Humvee parked in the CNN lobby. The vehicle is equipped as a remote television studio. It still shows the wear of war.