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By Aldo Svaldi
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/16/2006 02:37:59 AM MST
Ted Turner, right, founder of several popular cable channels, talks with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Turner appeared Wednesday at a fundraiser for the University of Colorado at Denver Graduate School of Public Affairs. (Special / Jack Dempsey)
Cable-industry legend Ted Turner has traveled the globe urging friendship instead of fighting.
He even donated $1 billion over the past nine years to the United Nations to promote world peace.
But don't ask him to share warm feelings about Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., or Time Warner Inc., which purchased Turner Broadcasting System Inc. in 1996.
"There is one person I don't like," he said of Murdoch.
Turner lambasted Murdoch - whose net worth is $7.7 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
"He gives nothing to charity," said Turner, whose net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion.
Turner said living by the golden rule served him well in his business career until it came to Time Warner.
"They did one dumb deal after another," said Turner, who resigned as vice chairman of the company in 2003, two years after its merger with AOL.
"I had better luck with the Soviet Union than with one of America's largest and leading companies," he told an audience of several hundred people Wednesday night.
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