Tag Archives: Ted Turner

What if nobody wants the serious stuff?

Ted Turner who created CNN and invented the 24-hour news cycle, on celebrity journalism, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “The greatest fear we could possibly have today is an uninformed electorate. That is what really scares me.” Read the full article: 70 years of Ted Turner

Ted Turner on the future of papers, magazines

Is the relentless torrent of breaking news—on television, through the internet, on the mobile phone, etc—making newspapers and magazines irrelevant? Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, answers the age-old question from reader Kristina Popski in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the latest issue of Time magazine: “No. I think it has made people more interested in news…