CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner dies
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Ted Turner’s death comes at a fraught time for cable news, which has struggled to retain viewership in an era of countless media choices and abundant streaming video.
“Ted Turner, one of the Greats of All Time, just died. He founded CNN, sold it, and was personally devastated by the Deal because the new ownership took CNN, his “baby,” and destroyed it. It became woke, and everything that he is not all about,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The media mogul, who founded CNN and Turner Networks, died Wednesday at 87.
Ted Turner, the media tycoon who died Wednesday, had a unique business sense that led him to (among other things) create America’s first 24-hour cable news channel, establish the concept of a “superst
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