Posted on 01/25/2005 5:40:58 PM PST by television is just wrong
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 that Adolf Hitler got the most votes when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration.
"There's nothing wrong with that. It's certainly legal. But it does pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed down," leaving voters without critical information on politics and world events and overloaded with fluff," he said.
A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well."
In 1996, Turner apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for comments he made comparing FOX head Rupert Murdoch to Hitler.
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He looks like he's going to blow a gasket.
As a matter of fact, he resembles Hitler himself during one of Hitler's speeches.
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Ted is a loser who had it good in the beginning with Cnn until he got his ass kicked by the competition.If people want to hear more liberal stupidity they could tune into any of the other stations beside Cnn.He started the news network revolution but he lost it all because he couldn't shake his liberal bias.Look at him now, he's a washes up angry old kook.
And he wonders why CNN is tanking.
Hitler's party gained seats in parliment and eventually bullied their way into complete control.
LOL
Ted Turner is unhappy that nobody is singing "CNN Uber Alles" anymore. We have a choice of switching to another channel like FNC to get a different prospective. CNN is losing in the market place of free choice(ratings).
great post....LOL "CRY HARDER"!
LOL!!!
Turner is proof liberalism is not an ideology but a psychosis.
Do I sense here a truck load of sour grapes courtesy of Ted Turner?
Murdoch kicked his ass big time, crushed CNN like a cockroach it is;
Murdoch is buying the rest of Fox shares (I wonder why?), is consolidating it and laughing all the way to the bank.
Ol' Ted is left holding the bag, seeing his baby (CNN) slowly killed, get kicked out of CNN as the "grand poobah" and the legacy of his life time going down the drains.
No guts, No glory, No nothing...it would make me crazy too, if I were ol' Ted.
I just hate it when Ted Turner looses his mind....hehe!
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so then CNN is....Stalin? or Mussolini?
That picture of Ted Turner on Drudge is old and not from his most recent rant.
hmmmm, could be...
I'll agree with that.
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