Exclusive–Lonergan: Ted Turner Wanted Positive Balance; CNN Delivered Negative Bias
Ted Turner, the brash media visionary who launched CNN in 1980 as the world’s first 24-hour cable news network, died Wednesday at age 87. CNN rightly hailed its founder as a pioneer who revolutionized television journalism. Yet, with Turner’s passing comes an undeniable fact: the network he built to deliver nonstop, relatively impartial news has largely abandoned the very principles of fairness and balance he championed.
