The story ` ` put CNN on the map , '' said former Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy . `` You get almost numb to it now , '' said Vito Maggiolo , CNN assignment editor on duty in Beijing at the time . CNN had visited Beijing to cover the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Putin . For the first time , a TV station beamed its own live pictures from Beijing . As protests grew , Chinese authorities ordered CNN to stop transmitting .
The story ` ` put CNN on the map , '' said former Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy . CNN had visited Beijing to cover the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Putin . For the first time , a TV station beamed its own live pictures from Beijing . As protests grew , Chinese authorities ordered CNN to stop transmitting .