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from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

Ted Turner Watched CNN Go From "World Peace Through Hard News" to "Dumbed Down" Infotainment. Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Are Now Funding the Decline.

Ted Turner's death marked the end of an era for CNN, which has deteriorated from his vision of world peace through hard news into a network he considered destroyed, now controlled by Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders rather than its founder's principles.
fromFortune
2 days ago

Before Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, there was Ted Turner, the larger-than-life billionaire owner who changed sports | Fortune

He effectively transformed the Braves into a team with a national reach and set the table for ways that local teams have now gained more of a national footprint. With a burgeoning fanbase that stretched far beyond the South, the Braves turned into a World Series mainstay during the 1990s, and Turner finally hoisted the Commissioner's Trophy in 1995.
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