RON HART: RIP Ted Turner, An American Original And A Turner Classic

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Before there were bombastic businessmen like Donald Trump and later Elon Musk, there was Ted Turner. He was called the “Mouth of the South,” full of bluster and humor.  For better or worse, as he later admitted, he was the man who created 24-hour cable news.

There was a time in the news business that “bfreaking news” did not happen every ten minutes. If one more person on that boat with Hantavirus got sick at 9 p.m., you’d have to wait until morning to be told.

As an aside, the seven cases of Hantavirus have quarantined the people on the boat. CNN reassured its audience that Dr. Fauci and the DNC will solve it with a vaccine they developed that will mandate mail-in voting for the midterms. (RELATED: CNN Founder Ted Turner Dies At 87)

Back to Ted. Modern-day cable news was invented when Ted Turner, an intrepid Atlanta entrepreneur, created it by starting CNN. I knew Ted through my Atlanta business days and a close relationship I had with one of CNN’s anchors. He was bigger than life, the type of guy who would challenge a thunderstorm to a fist........

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