{"id":1322807,"date":"2022-02-21T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322807"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:09:12","slug":"nolte-biographer-says-cnn-founder-ted-turner-hates-what-jeff-zucker-did-with-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-biographer-says-cnn-founder-ted-turner-hates-what-jeff-zucker-did-with-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Biographer Says CNN Founder Ted Turner Hates &#039;What Jeff Zucker Did with CNN&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-biographer-says-cnn-founder-ted-turner-hates-what-jeff-zucker-did-with-cnn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-180973493-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CNN founder Ted Turner despises \u201cwhat Jeff Zucker did with CNN,\u201d according to his biographer and longtime friend, Porter Bibb.<\/p>\n<p>Bibb, who has been a close friend of Turner\u2019s for almost fifty years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/051759322X\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1\">wrote<\/a> the billionaire\u2019s biography nearly 30 years ago, says the larger-than-life Turner is in bad shape now. The 83-year-old businessman and philanthropist is in declining health due to Lewy Body Syndrome, the same incurable brain disease Robin Williams suffered from before he committed suicide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a lengthy interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/theankler.com\/p\/ted-turner-biographer-john-malonespeaks?utm_source=url\">the Ankler<\/a>, Bibb discloses that he stays in close touch with Turner and the two of them have discussed the fall of CNN:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>[ANKLER] What does Turner think about CNN now?<\/strong><\/p>\n[BIBB]: I have not spoken to him [recently], because candidly he cannot really carry on a conversation. His brain is starting to go. But he\u2019s been adamantly [against] what Zucker did with CNN, turning it into an opinion network, to compete with Fox and losing the concept of hard news 24\/7 was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. He\u2019d agree with John Malone (who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/18\/john-malone-says-warnermedia-discovery-getting-rid-of-cnn-would-be-the-cowards-way-out.html\">suggested<\/a> CNN emphasize hard news)?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re buddies, even though Malone (the single-largest shareholder in Discovery, which is merging with CNN\u2019s parent WarnerMedia) basically beat him into the ground when he came up short on trying to buy the MGM film library. But they became very close after that. John Malone is not only speaking his own opinion of what CNN should be doing as an all-news network, but he speaks for Ted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Turner founded and launched CNN in 1980 and promised CNN would be there to cover the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t be signing off until the world ends,\u201d he said just prior to launch. \u201cWe\u2019ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event\u2026 we\u2019ll play the National Anthem only one time, on the 1st of June [the network\u2019s debut date], and when the end of the world comes, we\u2019ll play \u2018Nearer, My God, to Thee\u2019 before we sign off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Turner meant about playing the National Anthem only that one time is that CNN would never sign off. Back then, it was customary for television networks to sign off at the end of the broadcast day by playing the National Anthem. The idea of 24 hour television, with programming that ran around the clock, was unheard-of at the time.<\/p>\n<p>More than that has changed. The idea that a far-left propaganda outlet like CNN would close its end-of-world coverage with a Christian hymn like \u201cNearer, My God, to Thee\u201d is preposterous. You know those cretins would play John Lennon\u2019s <em>Imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As far as Ted Turner goes, I\u2019m happy the dynamic billionaire lived to see Jeff Zucker resign in disgrace. Hopefully, he\u2019ll live long enough to see a humiliating housecleaning of the whole smug and corrupt bunch. Hopefully, I will as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN founder Ted Turner despises \u201cwhat Jeff Zucker did with CNN,\u201d according to his biographer and longtime friend, Porter Bibb. 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