Posted on 06/01/2005 5:32:46 PM PDT by NCjim
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 domestic feed and a little more environmental coverage, and, maybe, maybe a little less of the pervert of the day," he said in a speech to CNN employees outside the old Atlanta mansion where the network first aired.
"You know, we have a lot of perverts on today, and I know that, but is that really news? I mean, come on. I guess you've got to cover Michael Jackson, but not three stories about perversion that we do every day as well."
His remarks won applause and laughter from CNN employees, but the moderator for Turner's remarks, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, said: "But everyone else is doing that. Why do you think it's important not to?"
Turner replied: "Somebody's got to be a serious news person. Somebody's got to be the most respected name in television news, and I wanted that position for CNN.
"I wanted to be The New York Times of the airwaves. Not the New York Post, but The New York Times. And that's what we set out to do, and we did it."
The brash Turner acknowledged that CNN wasn't all highbrow when he was in charge, either. "We followed O.J. Simpson ... It was pretty trivial, but high-interest."
As usual, the 65-year-old Turner made his remarks with a roguish smile.
The media pioneer called CNN his greatest professional achievement.
And at one point he claimed partial credit for ending the Cold War.
Amanpour asked his if he honestly thought he had a hand in it.
"I'm absolutely certain I did," he said.
But all the international news he wants is full of perverts too... Bill Clinton, UN peacekeepers, Islamic misogynists, etc.
WTF !! ted turner claims partial responsibility for the downfall of the soviet union !!
ROFL !!
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ROFL !!!
You mean it will cease to be the Clinton News Network?
I'll give him a hint: They already are!
Oops...he's off his lithium again!
So the liberals believe that Reagan played no part in ending the cold war, but Turner did?!?!?!?
Geez!!!
Personally, it's this focus on the "international" that sets us on the road to becoming the UN's lapdog. This country should look out for itself instead of being the police of the world. What business is it for ours if there's some genocide in an African country? We have problems of our own to deal with. We should only use military invasion if it's to protect our homeland security, like the Iraq war was.
Ted Turner is a left-wing radical and I honestly don't feel like wasting any time on him. I'm sure if he had gotten his way, CNN would just be 24-hour communist propaganda, although it's only a stone's throw from that anyway.
If Turner had CNN ban sensationalism coverage of Hollywood/Athletes (Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, etc), I'd drop the Mission Persons Network (aka Fox News/Fox Snooze) in a heartbeat so that I can get some real news.
I can't argue with that!
I wonder if, by international news, he means that CNN will be overlooking the activities of more genocidal dictators, in order to get scoops.
You and Ted could watch together and be about the only two watching.
He's not referring to Michael Jackson when he uses the term "pervert", is he?
Bwahahahahaha! Ted is so FUNNY!
A loser is a man who loses his business (CNN) his wife, a lot of his money and most of all his self respect. That about sums up Ted Turner to me.
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So stop hiring them. ;)
Ted is his own freak show.
I'm sorry. I've tried to post a serious reply to this.
But all I can do is roll on the floor and laugh.
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