RIP Ted Turner

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CNN founder Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died Wednesday, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.

He changed everything in journalism.....internationally known yachtsman; a philanthropist who founded the United Nations Foundation; an activist who sought the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons; and a conservationist who became one of the foremost landowners in the United States. He also played a crucial role in reintroducing bison to the American west.
 
I been on Ted's ranch in Montana the Flying D Ranch. The last time I was on it he had many semi trailers of fencing material. He had a full time crew install fence. I would have like to go in his cabin mansion, it was a beautiful looking home. That ranch is 114,000 acres >78 square miles worth, and a beautiful place.
 
Many many years ago (as a teenager), I was at the National Bison Association meeting and got to meet Iron Eyes Cody. I heard that Ted Turner was there, but I never saw him. I admired his work with American Bison. RIP.
 
ferbm said:
Many many years ago (as a teenager), I was at the National Bison Association meeting and got to meet Iron Eyes Cody. I heard that Ted Turner was there, but I never saw him. I admired his work with American Bison. RIP.
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Ted's Montana Grill lives on, I believe.
 
Well he built quite an innovative TV network. Too bad they got fooled by AOL and the dot com boom (this was after the Time Warner acquisition of Turner Broadcasting). I’m glad he got into raising and promoting American Bison. Years ago we did manage to visit a Ted’s Montana Grill.
 
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Ted Turner was a visionary but even he could not have anticipated the chaos that emerged from the concept of 24 news channels. Nature abhors a vacuum and airtime must be filled -- evidently not with insightful broadening world wide news coverage to bring the global community closer together but rather with mindless opinion commentary on the right and the left both with people yelling at each other.

Paddy Chayefsky correctly predicted today's "news media" in his brilliant "Network" -- I wish we were all mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
 
RIP. I forgot how wide ranging his activities were.
 
He had an interesting take on world population and the "ideal" numbers when talking about climate & consumption of natural resources. Interesting guy.
 
I remember when he owned the Atlanta Braves. He disagreed with the manager, put on a uniform and managed the team himself for a while.
 
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Around here Ted was not very popular... buying up farmland driving up the price and locking out family farmers needing to expand.
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As if they wouldn’t do the same to win in the land market, if they could. RIP TT.
 
Nobody’s going to mention his venture into pro wrestling?

Ted going into competition in that scope made wrestling in pop culture huge. But then after years of mismanagement it just tanked.

Just from a business standpoint, it was interesting when the AOL bosses shed wrestling for pennies on the dollar. Big mistake as just that video library is worth hundreds of millions of dollars now.
 
Spock said:
Around here Ted was not very popular... buying up farmland driving up the price and locking out family farmers needing to expand.
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You see this all the time when people don't accept you when buying land. A lot of truth about driving up prices and taking land out of production. Family farms and ranches is a livelihood for people there. I get it, maybe some jealously and maybe someone that has no ties to the area coming in, is not excepted well. When you 4 and 5 generation land your blood is in that ground.

I have lived in the area I bought a ranch and a farm and even though on a way smaller scale then TT. I have one local ranchers that never excepted me there. We all get along but they don't go out of their way to connect. Then there are the one's that stop and visit and got to know each other very well and have shared many tasks and friendships in the last 20 years.
 
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You see this all the time when people don't accept you when buying land. A lot of truth about driving up prices and taking land out of production. Family farms and ranches is a livelihood for people there. I get it, maybe some jealously and maybe someone that has no ties to the area coming in, is not excepted well. When you 4 and 5 generation land your blood is in that ground.

I have lived in the area I bought a ranch and a farm and even though on a way smaller scale then TT. I have one local ranchers that never excepted me there. We all get along but they don't go out of their way to connect. Then there are the one's that stop and visit and got to know each other very well and have shared many tasks and friendships in the last 20 years.
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similar story: 3 years ago we decided to move back to my wife's home town in the northern plains after 30 years in Arizona. Had to rent a car for the cross country trip to look at a house. Seller expressed concerns about selling to us because the license plates on the car were from California....
 
Spock said:
similar story: 3 years ago we decided to move back to my wife's home town in the northern plains after 30 years in Arizona. Had to rent a car for the cross country trip to look at a house. Seller expressed concerns about selling to us because the license plates on the car were from California....
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Prejudice comes in many forms and expresses itself in many ways. Too bad, really.
 
This is a video with Amanpour about her history with Ted Turner and the founding of CNN. I thought the interview with Turner was interesting and I especially like his attitude towards nukes.

 
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