Ted Turner Criticizes the Company He Founded -- CNN

[Ted Striker]

Ted Turner said that if he was still in charge, CNN would be running more international stories, and less, "Pervert of the Day" type stories.




<----- Pervert of the Day

Of course, it would be nice if all our domestic media did this.

[DaShi]

There goes my chance for 15 minutes of fame.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

yeah. its kinda sad when fox news leads in with a piece about a condom commercial on network TV.

[Az]

Ted Striker >> Ted Turner

[BeBMan]

I only get CNN International, which has surprisingly many international stories....

[Ted Striker]

"And maybe a little less pervert of the day," said Turner. "I mean, there's a lot of perversion around, I know that, but is it really news? I mean, some of it is. I guess you've got to cover Michael Jackson, but not three stories about perversion at the lead of every half-hour."

There's hope! :

CNN is planning to add an hour of international news to its domestic lineup, Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S., recently announced.

[Ted Striker]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/01/turner.25th.cnn/index.html

Ted needs some teeth whitening.




According to this article, Ted actually likes it. The local news story I watched on tv made it sound like he was really coming down on it. But he did make the pervert of the day suggestion which is hilarious.


About 2 years ago CNN.com was running, "Disease of the day," when the bird flu thing was first on the scene.

[DRoseDARs]

Of course, ya'll know what's going to happen now? CNN will start doing stories on international perverts.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Az
Ted Striker >> Ted Turner

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Of course, ya'll know what's going to happen now? CNN will start doing stories on international perverts.

Perverts of the world, unite!

[Ted Striker]

[MrFun]

Who makes better perverts? Communist perverts or capitalist perverts?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Of course, Ted Turner is only saying this because he's not in charge anymore. When he was running it, I didn't see this impetus for international news focus.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by MrFun
Who makes better perverts? Communist perverts or capitalist perverts?

Shouldn't we wait for Lancer to start a thread about it?