Ted Turner: CNN Focuses Too Much on Perverts

[Ernesto]

"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."
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050601/ap_on_en_tv/tv_cnn_s_25th_3

[Bob3]

1. like * and Rumsfled and Cheney and Boulton

N/T

[tridim]

2. I wish Turner would actually do something about it

Instead of just complaining. He could have the anti-CNN up and running by next year if he put his mind and money to it.

[B. P. R. D.]

3. How did Ted Turner lose control of CNN in the first place

Probably sold it for big bucks didn't he

[Ernesto]

4. yes