Comments on: Take Pity on Ted Turner

By: myth buster

myth buster — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:39 +0000

21. Adult Swim didn’t do that because it had to; they did it because their management is filled with morons. Likewise, Toonami got canceled because the executives deliberately set it up for failure, despite its record in prior years of dominating the schedule. They outright sabotaged MAR and Prince of Tennis by airing the episodes out of sequence, crippling their ability to hold an audience. Then, they ruined Toonami’s schedule by limiting their premieres to filler episodes of Naruto. It shouldn’t surprise anyone they wound up canceling Toonami; it’s what they were planning to do the whole time.

By: Lolwhat

Lolwhat — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:33:10 +0000

“You’re audience wants shonen anime, not Captain Planet.”

Which is why Adult Swim had to reduce its anime showings to a single night, am I right?

By: Tristan Yates

Tristan Yates — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:44:42 +0000

Ted Turner’s CNN was bought by Time Warner, that’s where he got his billions. He held on to the stock and got crushed when Time Warner decided to bet it all and buy America Online at the top of the Internet bubble. Actually, AOL could have worked out, but the company never did anything strategic and most of the best execs. They actually had a ton of business & technical talent in the company but they got frustrated and went elsewhere.

The bottom line for Ted Turner is that he got caught up in the hype and didn’t sell his Time-Warner stock, at least not enough to diversify properly. At the time there were also lots of billionaires making big pledges and he got caught up in that. And of course he never did any other business ventures comparable to CNN (or TNN & TNT, his other channel) even though he knew the cable industry inside out.

It’s easy to trash his politics, but I won’t do it – they are what they are and it wasn’t a focus of his aside from a topic in interviews. He’s no George Soros. I also try to draw a distinction between the moderate Democrats and the lunatics – he may straddle the line at times but he’s had enough real world experience to see through that.

By: Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:16:14 +0000

Ted shouldn’t have give a billion dollars to the corrupt United Nations; how much of his money went to dictators? He’s a fool. I have no pity for Turner. He deserves the scorn.

By: Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:45:35 +0000

When CNN began in the 1980′s, it was not a propaganda megaphone for the Democratic Party; it was hard news 24 hours a day; this was a new concept before cable became a niche audience. CNN was the only 24 hour cable network for a long time then MSNBC & Fox News came in the mid-1990′s. CNN had begun to show more of their Left Wing bias over a period of years, but now, CNN is just a joke. If I want to laugh, I turn it to Campbell Brown or Wolf Blitzer’s shows. They really take themselves too seriously on PC Leftist topics. My nickname for Campbell Brown is Alma Zahn since her real name is Alma & she took Paula Zahn’s place; it also sounds like “Amazon.” For Wolf, I have him transforming into a Yeti while wearing a female cheerleader costume for the DNC.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:19:08 +0000

Ted is really really scared. He was worth a lot more and was afraid of going bankrupt as T W was dropping and dropping and dropping. Now almost all his money is in treasuries (1%-3% a year) and on land so that “couple of billions” is not liquid. Since he is self-made I can’t really criticize him.

By: Bilgeman

Bilgeman — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:45:24 +0000

I guess this really isn’t a satire then.

“Turner wants to get back into the cable news business, but evidently that takes more than a couple billion.”

Hey, if their ratings keep sinking, maybe he can buy MSNBC.

I’d rather not watch “Captain Planet” than not watch Keith Olberman.

I mean think about it…no one goes around the workplace the next day citing what Captain Planet said yesterday, right?

By: austin tx personal trainer

austin tx personal trainer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:53:01 +0000

Ted is pathetic.

By: Class Clown

Class Clown — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:38:07 +0000

A couple billion! Wow! Think of all the free health-care that will pay for! If we can just figure out how to get the cash out of his off-shore banking accounts.

By: Marc malone

Marc malone — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:34:24 +0000

Pssst! Hey, Ted. If you don’t have the money to play with the big boys, anymore, they aren’t your contemporaries, are they?

Btw, how did that wealth redistribution thing work out for you? Mybe you can do what Algore does for a living, hawk AGW… oops, climate change.