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With an eye toward grabbing more sports rights for its regional sports network, FSN South, Fox Cable Networks could be nearing a deal with Time Warner Inc. to purchase Turner South. Turner South, a regional network that offers entertainment programming, also holds long-term rights to Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers and the National Basketball Association’s Atlanta Hawks. Time Warner is also looking to sell the Braves. Fox officials declined to comment. A Turner spokeswoman would only say, “We are in discussions on both assets. We will not comment on those negotiations.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

NEW DELHI: Former media baron Ted Turner regrets the fact that he lost control over CNN, the 24 hours news channel that he had started in 1980. Addressing a meet of group of industrialists, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Turner said that he could have run the organisation better than the way it is being run presently. He said following the merger of CNN with AOL, he was pushed out of the company. "I regret the loss of control over the company." Following the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner in 1999, the group company...

Kim Jong Il Has Face Transplant, Comes to US as Ted Turner WASHINGTON, DC --- A recent story about a new face transplant procedure has now explained a bizarre interview with Ted Turner by Wolf Blitzer. Turner returned from a trip to North Korea this week and told Wolf Blitzer that Kim Jong Il isn't evil and should be given a chance to give up his own nuclear capabilities and be trusted. His reason? Kim Jong Il doesn't look evil in photographs. Hours after the bizarre exchange, federal agents arrested the person looking like Ted Turner and confirmed he was...

Media mogul Ted Turner said Monday that Iraq is "no better off" following the U.S.-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. Delivering the 141st Landon Lecture at Kansas State University, Turner said the world is at a "critical juncture" and compared the situation to that of a baseball team down two runs in the seventh inning. The philanthropist and founder of Atlanta-based CNN gave the lecture to a less-than-full auditorium. Earlier this fall, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a similar message of peace to a packed room as he marked 20 years of the reforms he championed....

For those of you who are wondering why a former "Clown" with a bad reputation for bashing FReepers would want to come back here with his original screen name, I largely came back to FreeRepublic because of exposure to three websites together with the passage of the recent San Francisco handgun ban. These websites are: www.jpfo.orgwww.jpfo.netinnocentsbetrayed.com/index2.htm If any FReeper has any friends who are even remotely on the "gun grabber" side of the Gun Rights issue he or she should be exposed to these websites. They are a goldmine of information about the DEADLY side of "Gun Control". One hundred...

As reported by Brent Baker in today’s CyberAlert, Wolf Blitzer was taken aback by CNN founder Ted Turner’s defense of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and his treatment of the North Korean people. Turner disputes Blitzer's charge that the North Korean leader's regime is "despotic", insisting, "he didn't look too much different than most other people." When Turner declared we should "give 'em a break," and insisted that North Korea poses a "non-existent" threat to the U.S., Blitzer suggested North Korean missiles could reach Alaska. In response, Turner stated: "Well, what, the Aleutian Islands? There's nothing up there but...

Monday afternoon on CNN, to Wolf Blitzer's astonishment, Ted Turner, just back from a visit to North Korea, declared his belief in the sincerity of North Korea and how the U.S. can trust the regime's new deal to not build nuclear weapons. Turner rejected the "despotic" characterization of Kim Jong Il, insisting that "he didn't look too much different than most other people," or that he treats his people brutally since Turner saw the people "were thin," but "they were riding bicycles." When Turner declared North Korea is not a "threat" to the U.S., Blitzer suggested their missiles could reach...

Billionaire environmentalist and media mogul Ted Turner believes Washington should give in to North Korea's demand to keep its civilian nuclear energy program. That demand is a key sticking-point in disarmament talks and an area of emerging disagreement between the U.S. and its South Korean ally. The CNN founder visited North Korea last weekend to discuss his vision of turning the demilitarized zone dividing the peninsula into a conservation park. Half a century of minimal human activity in the strip of no-man's land has enabled rare plants, animals and bird life to flourish. During a subsequent visit to Seoul, Turner...

CNN founder meets with Pyongyang officials SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Yonhap) -- Ted Turner, the founder and former chairman of the U.S. cable channel CNN, was welcomed by senior North Korean government officials in Pyongyang on Monday, the North's news media reported. Turner, whose real name is Robert Edward Turner, met with Kim Yong-dae, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the North's official Central News Agency said. Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan, the North's top delegate to the six-party talks on the communist state's nuclear program, and some other officials concerned also attended the meeting, it added....

Ex-CNN president arrives in North Korea SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- Former CNN President Ted Turner arrived in North Korea Saturday, heading a 10-member delegation that included a U.S. congressman, the North's media reported. Turner flew to the North's capital, Pyongyang, with Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, and former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg, the Korean Central News Agency said in a brief report. The group is scheduled to visit South Korea Aug. 15-18. Their itinerary in South Korea includes a meeting with former President and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae-jung. The KCNA report gave...

WASHINGTON -- Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a false ad running on CNN against Judge John Roberts is sponsored by a group funded by CNN founder Ted Turner, creating a serious conflict of interest for the news network. "The Ted Turner connection to the group sponsoring the ad may explain why it's being aired," said Kincaid, "and why CNN is disregarding evidence that the ad is blatantly false." _______________break_____________________ "But will CNN identify the ads as coming from a group funded by its founder?" asked Kincaid. "Will CNN tell the full truth about its own connection...

Just learned from a Korean friend that Ted Turner is visiting North Korea next month to discuss turning the DMZ into a Park. (This is not a joke!). The North Koreans have agreed to meet with the former CNN founder to discuss his ideas on a revamp of the most heavily fortified and land mined area in the world. Im having a very difficult time adjusting to the idea that the DMZ, will become a park of "Peace". .......

Ted Turner plans to visit North Korea next month to promote plans to protect plant and animal life in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, a swath of heavily fortified no-man's land that also contains rare and endangered species. The CNN founder and philanthropist will join a list of prominent opinion-makers in academia and journalism to travel recently from the United States to one of the most secretive nations on Earth. Analysts say North Korea has cracked open the door at least in part in hopes of explaining its view that concern over its nuclear program would be...

Green TheologyAustin Ruse, President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the only Catholic lobbying group at the United Nations in New York, reports that there are a number of troubling groups circling around the UN. One such group is fairly new and as yet little-reported movement called the United Religious Initiative (URI), now active in 58 countries and 33 states in the U.S. It has been described as "an exclusive, decentralized organization, a spiritual partner of the United Nations." URI positions support population control, environmental extremism, and are radical on sexual matters. A new document signed by URI's...

An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...

Turner: CNN Focuses Too Much on Perverts Email this Story Jun 1, 7:46 PM (ET) By KRISTEN WYATT (AP) CNN founder Ted Turner, right, leans over to speak with Rebekah Stewart, left, before he... Full Image Google sponsored links Get Tax Debt Relief Today - We'll settle your tax debt and stop collection fast. As seen on CNN. www.taxincorporated.com Quick Tax Debt Relief - Local Tax Attorneys 800 750 7500 Free Consultation. Proud BBB Member www.NationwideTaxRelief.com ATLANTA (AP) - CNN should cover international news and the environment, not the "pervert of the day," network founder Ted Turner said Wednesday as...

During an appearance Wednesday to celebrate CNN's 25th anniversary, CNN founder Ted Turner, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, recalled that he was inspired to launch CNN International after Fidel Castro told him, "Ted, the whole world needs CNN. I watch it all the time and it's very important to me." Turner also, reporter Jill Vejnoska relayed, "credited his international Goodwill Games with helping end the Cold War." Turner's comments came during a June 1 session emceed by Christiane Amanpour at the Techwood Drive lawn in Atlanta of the building where CNN was started in 1980. CNN on Wednesday played excerpts throughout...

CNN should cover international news and the environment, not the "pervert of the day," network founder Ted Turner said Wednesday as the first 24-hour news network turned 25. Turner, an outspoken media mogul who started CNN in 1980 but no longer controls the network, said he envisioned CNN as a place where rapes and murders that dominated local news wouldn't be emphasized, but he's seeing too much of that "trivial news" on the network he created, now second in ratings to Fox News Channel. "I would like to see us to return to a little more international coverage on the...

Says he would do some things differently if still in chargeATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- CNN founder Ted Turner said Wednesday he would do things differently if he still held the reins at the news network he founded 25 years ago.And he expressed bitterness toward the man who agreed to the deal that wrote him out of the organizational chart more than five years ago."The only thing I can suggest, and I love it the way it is, but I would like to see us return to a little more international coverage on the domestic feed and a little more environmental...

i-Newswire, 2005-05-24 - CNN/U.S. will air “Defining Moments: 25 Stories that Touched Our Lives” on Wednesday, June 1, an intimate recounting of the biggest television news events from the past quarter century as told by the newsmakers and journalists who lived through them. The two-part special airs from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and then from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Special anniversary editions of Larry King Live, which is celebrating its 20th year, airs from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. All times Eastern. On June 1, 1980, CNN signed on the air as the world’s first 24-hour news network....

On the day after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, it was Ted Turner time at the United Nations. The 2005 prestigious Alan Cranston Peace Award was presented to Turner, former CNN media mogul, and the man who once referred to Christianity as a "religion for losers". Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev presented the award on behalf of the Global Security Institute (GSI). This is not the first UN accolade bestowed on Jane Fonda’s ex-hubby. In August 2000, Turner was the keynote speaker at the World Peace Summit, held in the UN General Assembly Hall. "New Age billionaire Maurice Strong...

The old news: PBS is still a liberal monstrosity transforming the hard-earned dollars of many Bush-loving taxpayers into fire-breathing Bush-loathing programming. The new development: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has plans to get serious about seeking a better balance of political views on PBS. From the sound of a New York Times front-page story May 2, they must have been waving smelling salts in the face of liberal reporters. Kenneth Tomlinson, the "Republican chairman" of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was said to be pressing aggressively to correct "what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias." The Times approach, pretending...

In the past, U.N. agencies have also sponsored "traveling seminars" for journalists so they write positive stories about U.N. projects. When conservative commentator Armstrong Williams was exposed for taking money from the Bush administration, his credibility was cast into doubt and news organizations expressed regrets for having had him on the air to comment on public policy issues. Williams was tainted by a conflict of interest that should have been revealed to the viewing audience. He was said to be a channel for Bush administration propaganda.

Dear Everyone, We were able just today to get the itinerary for Jane Fonda's book signing tour. We are encouraging all Vietnam Veterans and their family, as well as all concerned Americans, to protest her signings. This is Operation Street Corner, now used for another traitor, Jane Fonda. Watch the Operation Street Corner website for pictures and information about our protests (http://operationstreetcorner.com/). There is nothing posted yet, as we are getting the word out first to our email listservers. Thank you so much for your time and help! I will be sending out additional information about Jane soon. See Hanoi...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police said they arrested a man for spitting on Academy Award winning actress Jana Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night.Fonda, 67, spoke at Unity Temple, in The Plaza shopping district, about her new book, "My Life So Far" and her new movie with Jennifer Lopez called "Monster-In-Law."At about 9 p.m., police said a man who had been waiting in line for about 90 minutes, passed a book to Fonda and then spit a large amount of tobacco juice into her face. Michael A. Smith Thy said the man then ran away and...

FLASH: Jane Fonda writes in new book that she caught Ted Turner having a 'nooner' with another woman a month after they were married. 'Ted is the only person I know who has had to apologize more than I have,' she writes. Ted Turner, married her on her 54th birthday. He was cheating on her a month later, prompting Fonda to hit him repeatedly with a car phone... Developing...

The following was published in The New York Times. Please note what the fourth paragraph says about her soon-to-be-published autobiography. Her autobiography will either completely ignor her July 1972 trip to North Vietnam, or it will not. Either way, her autobiography's publication is a golden opportunity, perhaps the last, for those of us who know the truth of what happened in Hanoi, and its consequences, to hammer home that Jane Fonda committed the constitutional and statutory crime of treason. As many recipients of this email know, three years ago the Holzers' book -- "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North...

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

The group looking to boot the United Nations out of the U.S. is now blasting the global body for hiring aides to former presidential candidate John Kerry to help improve its image. Peter Daou and Debra DeShong, both of whom worked for the Massachusetts Democrat in his campaign against President Bush, have taken on new roles with the U.N. Foundation, headed by former CNN mogul Ted Turner. The employment of Kerry aides to "rescue" the U.N. "shows the United Nations is just like the Kerry campaign – it's failing," said Howard Kaloogian, co-chairman of Move America Forward. "As the American...

Ted Turner AKA Robert Edward Turner III Born: 19-Nov-1938 Birthplace: Cincinnati, OH Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Business Level of fame: Famous Executive summary: Founder of CNN Father: Robert Edward Turner, Jr. (d. 5-Mar-1963, suicide) Mother: Florence Rooney Sister: Mary Jane Turner (b. 1941, d., lupus) Wife: Julia Gale Nye (m. 1960, div.) Daughter: Laura Lee Turner (b. 23-Jul-1961) Son: Robert Edward Turner IV (b. 30-May-1962) Wife: Jane Shirley Smith (m. Jun-1964, div. 1988) Son: Rhett Turner Son: Beauregard Turner Daughter: Jennie Turner Wife: Jane Fonda (m. 21-Dec-1991, div. 16-Apr-2001) Girlfriend: Fréderique D'arragon Girlfriend: Rebekah...

Ward Churchill is the professor from Colorado University who called the dead in the World Trade Center "Nazis" and also said that the US deserved 9/11, and that we should have not fought back. Prof Churchill may get fired from the University of Colorado-Bolder He may appear on March 1st, time pending, if the administration approves of it.

In a 1999 lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan told the audience that CNN International was directly inspired by Fidel Castro: I thank you very much for being here tonight. Let me also thank Fidel Castro. In the earliest days of CNN, when CNN was meant to be seen only in the United States, the enterprising Fidel Castro was pirating and watching CNN in Cuba. Fidel was intrigued by CNN. He wanted to meet the person responsible. So Ted Turner, who at that point had never traveled to a...

In his FrontPage Magazine article Andrew Alexander’s Lies About the Cold War, Jamie Glazov speaks of the Soviet regime’s aggressive and expansionist designs against the West in the post-WWII period, and how de-classified Soviet sources prove that they had extensively infiltrated their agents into Western society. "...the Venona transcripts are thousands of Soviet intelligence messages that were intercepted and decoded over four decades by the FBI and the NSA (National Security Agency). Released over the past few years, these files prove that there was a large-scale Communist penetration of the U.S. government, and that Communist spies passed on valuable information...

One of the most common complaints I hear from our troops is that the media rarely report on the military's good deeds. A simple column I wrote last month lauding the humanitarian efforts of our men and women in the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, for example, resulted in an avalanche of mail from military members and their families expressing astonishment and relief over a bit of positive press. "I cannot tell you how much that it meant to myself as well as several of my shipmates to be praised," wrote Mariano Gonzales, a member of Strike Fighter Squadron...

Preserving the buffalos Fate of Texas herd rests with donated bulls By BETSY BLANEY Associated Press CAPROCK CANYONS STATE PARK, Texas The rumble from stampeding bison used to shake the earth as thousands of the majestic animals thundered across these parts centuries ago. That sound has faded almost entirely now, and the fate of one of the last pure herds in North America begun by famed cattleman Charles Goodnight rests with a trio of bulls donated by media tycoon Ted Turner. The herd, once 250 strong, has dwindled to 53, and more than a century of inbreeding threatens it survival....

He's known for Yogi-isms, but Yogi Berra doesn't want to know from Yogasms. The Yankee legend has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Turner Broadcasting Systems for using his name in a "hurtful" advertisement for its "Sex and the City" reruns — an ad that "created a false image of [Berra] that is both contrary to his personality, lifestyle and character as well as abhorrent to him personally." The ad, which appeared on numerous city buses and billboards and in magazines around the world, features what the suit calls a "rather provocative" photo of "Sex" star Kim Cattrall's promiscuous "Samantha"...

Hitler Wasn't Elected, Mr. Turner January 26, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT We're going to talk about Ted Turner next. The Fox people put out a great quote, and I'm going to have to paraphrase this -- and I know it's Ailes. It came from "a Fox spokesman." I know Ailes well enough to know that this is Ailes' quote. He said, "Well, it's understandable that Ted would be saying these things. He's lost his network. He's lost his ratings, and now he's lost his mind." (Laughing.) That's a Roger Ailes quote, folks. But he doesn't know his history. This business...

TED TURNER COMPARES FOXNEWS TO HITLER Tue Jan 25 2005 15:53:55 ET Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII. Turner made the controversial comments in Las Vegas before a standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television Programming Executives's opening session. His no-nonsense, humorous approach during the one-hour Q&A generated frequent loud applause and laughter, BROADCASTING & CABLE reports. While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's CNN], it's not the best, Turner said. He followed up by pointing out...

Girls For A Change, a group of Bozeman High School girls, have been busy creating an educational and inspirational one-day conference for high school-age girls and actress/activist Jane Fonda has agreed to be the keynote speaker. The conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 12, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Montana State University Strand Union Building. "Opening Doors" is designed to help girls build a future in which they are economically self-sufficient and successful in all aspects of their lives -- personal, academic, and professional lives. The planning committee's invitation to Fonda to be the keynote speaker "elicited...

Professional critics have decried President Bush’s three-day “delay” in reacting to the tsunami disasters. But if the President used that time to understand the dimensions of the disaster, and to keep the United Nations from controlling relief efforts, every minute was justified. When the UN handles dollars, tens of millions disappear. When the UN handles protection and relief, tens of thousands of people die. Instead of leaving money and authority to the UN, the US created a “core group” with Japan, Australia and India. The lead personnel are the military of those nations. That makes sense, because military units are...

When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess.     When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat. [snip]What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else. [snip]     There was...

While Ted Turner was in college, his father wrote him a letter that concluded: "I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass." Anyone who has watched the eccentric billionaire over the years might be inclined to admire Dad's prescience.... Far from self-made, Mr. Turner inherited a large billboard business when his father, with whom he had a troubled relationship, committed suicide.... He had been less lucky in 1985 when, without consulting his board, he bought MGM for $1.5 billion. He overpaid and was drowning in debt. Three months later he sold the studio back at a discount. More damaging, he...

It’s late in the campaign season, time for the networks to pull out all the stops promoting the greatness of the Democratic Party. But you can only stoop so low, right? You wouldn’t actually try to boost the reputation of the most discredited president in fifty years if he were a Democrat, would you? Oh yes, you would, if you’re NBC’s Katie Couric.[Provide caption of what you think Jimmuh's listening to.] Katie has a long history of boosting former president Jimmy Carter, so much so that it was reported the Man from Plains thanked her personally when he won the...

Say you're no fan of ABC, NBC or CBS and are interested in starting up your own media empire. Chances are you're going to fail – not because your news coverage or point of view is inaccurate or wrongheaded, but because there will be a huge force working against you. It’s the government. That's according to media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN. He says the little guy can't catch a break in today's media world. In an article for Washington Monthly’s July/August edition, Turner says his style of risk-taking and independence isn't possible in today's media world. He says...

Soros had made it clear that if he could be assured that an "ABB" could win the election he would spend all his wealth...so, the question is who's following his money trail??? Has the market (equity, oil, energy, commodities, dollar, etc.) been manipulated?? I'd like to know if anyone has links to a watchdog sight that may follow his trail or any foregn entities that may try to attempt to effect our politics...

Ted Turner has been in the forefront of promoting extreme environmental causes, crusading relentlessly to stop oil drilling on public land in Colorado and on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Meanwhile, Ted is padding his pockets with oil money, money obtained from large-scale leases on his Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico. According to the Wall Street Journal, Turner now earns over 6 million a year from oil royalties, and new wells are being drilled on his ranch ever year. Ted's actions are speaking louder than his words! Actually, Ted's drilling agreement with El Paso Gas demonstrates that...

ATLANTA - Fox News Channel is threatening to take a sign company to court if it does not post a cheeky billboard tweaking archrival CNN. Fox claims the owners of the billboard, across the street from CNN's Atlanta offices, refuse to post a message trumpeting Fox's successes in the ratings war between the cable networks. Fox lawyer Dianne Brandi said in a letter that Atlanta company Camfaux may have buckled to pressure from CNN not to put up the message. "Should you choose not to put up the billboard immediately, we will consider all options available to us, including, of...

Ted Turner has an embarrassing amount of gas. Embarrassing, that is, for an "environmentalist." "The media mogul gives millions to environmental and conservation causes, but finds himself in the awkward position of having to drill more gas wells on his pristine wilderness ranch in New Mexico," the New York Post reported today in an article headlined "Ted sacrifices green goals for greenbacks." "Having to"? More like wanting to. "Some environmentalists have been on the warpath in Washington, D.C., for months to control gas exploration in his area and along the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains." Now that energy prices...