CNN Founder Blasts Network for Lack of a ‘More Balanced Agenda’

September 30, 2018 in News by Ken

CNN founder Ted Turner

Source: www.westernjournal.com
BY CILLIAN ZEAL

Well, here’s a wonderful bit of irony for your weekend: Ted Turner, the hyper-political founder of CNN, now thinks that CNN has gotten too political for his tastes.

Turner, 79, made the remarks in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that will air this week.

According to The Associated Press, the media magnate said “that he’d prefer his old network had a more balanced agenda, ‘but that’s just one man’s opinion.’”

Consider some of the things that Turner has done over the years, as chronicled by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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He’s offended Catholics by calling Ash Wednesday adherents “Jesus freaks.”

He offended Jews by making an off-color remark about them and then ending a letter of apology to a Jewish group with, “Yours in Christ.”

He also said that if global warming wasn’t addressed, most of us would be dead “and the rest of us will be cannibals.”

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