Tag: Ted Turner

  • Ted Turner, the Last Great Madman of Television

    Ted Turner, the Last Great Madman of Television

    Ted Turner, who has died aged 87, was one of the last media titans who seemed less the product of a boardroom than of a novelist’s imagination. He was loud, reckless, brilliant, vulgar, idealistic, impossible, visionary. When he founded CNN in 1980, he did not simply launch a television network. He altered the nervous system…