CNN founder repeats Hitler jibe over Fox's rise to the top

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David Teather in New York
Thursday January 27, 2005
The Guardian

CNN founder Ted Turner, never shy about speaking his mind, has compared the ascent of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News to the rise of Adolf Hitler before the second world war.
"Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany than the people who ran against him," he told a conference of programming executives in Las Vegas.

"Just because you are bigger doesn't mean to say you are right," he added. In a typically pugnacious speech, the 67-year-old billionaire also told the audience at the Natpe programme sales market that Fox had become a propaganda tool for the Bush administration.

"There's nothing wrong with that," he said. "It's certainly legal. But it does pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed down, leaving voters without critical information on politics and world events and overloaded with fluff. We need to know what's going on in the world. A little less Hollywood and a little more hard news would probably be good for our society."

Fox hit back in equally confrontational style. "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind," a Fox News spokesman said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1399252,00.html

[paineinthearse]

1. Testing the waters

Could Turner be testing the waters to see if there is interest in creating a new news network or possibly run for office?

[Guns Aximbo]

7. I think so...

It'll be the Liberal answer to FOX and it'll be GREAT!!!

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2. Turner is not bitter or crazy

Now he is outside he can observe the power of t.v. for what it is.

[Botany]

3. Thank you Ted!

Welcome to the Boxer Rebellion.

Bush & Fox are like slugs and the truth is like salt. Watch how fox reacted to Turner and how bush reacted to a "real" question at his press conference ...... just like a slug
that had salt put on it.


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[David__77]

4. He should repeat it over and over.

Then he should link up with other patriotic capitalists like George Soros and launch a true progressive media endeavor.

[mattclearing]

5. I'll take Ted Turner over Drudge any day.

And Fox has no credibility.

[Guns Aximbo]

6. I've been wondering where his opinion had gone

and have been waiting for his remarks. Also, I'm wondering what his thoughts are on the direction CNN has taken since he sold out.

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8. Fox news already 'smashed' him -

they had rupert on and made it seem that turner is a diz and irrational - as they were talking they would flash turner statements on the bottom of screen where he has said other things

the commentator tried to make it that turner was jealous or just out of it

and this is how the lies and ousting happens - this is bullying on the grand scale

this is like the documentaries that show how a group can oust others by making them not included and this is how hitler youth rose - I believe the documentary film was 'blue wave' but there have been others

the testing where miller had people 'jolt' others as part of their job - all showing how others can become exactly like hitler and his gang

yes they are doing a fine job and no one wants to notice and our dem congress oks a torturer - and will ok more - who is watching the store