As per ‘Commie Dictator’ Castro Inspired CNN, Ted Turner Admits click here
Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, said it was Cuban “commie dictator” Fidel Castro who inspired him to broadcast CNN into other countries around the world.
Castro invited Turner to visit Cuba in 1982 after a CNN news team visited the communist nation.
“We spent all night drinking and smoking cigars,” Turner told a convention of cable television operators meeting in Los Angeles on Wednesday. “He told me CNN was invaluable to him. And I thought, if Fidel Castro can’t live without it, we ought to be able to sell CNN all over the world. So the idea came from a commie dictator,” said Turner.
After his 1982 meeting with Castro, Turner commented: “Fidel ain’t a communist. He’s a dictator just like me.”
Ok Ted, have you killed millions of people like Castro? Just wondering. click here
that article was printed in November of 2001. Now this is more recent, from Little Green Footballs:
Castro: Father of CNN International (click here)
In a 1999 lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan told the audience that CNN International was directly inspired by Fidel Castro. (click here)
I thank you very much for being here tonight. Let me also thank Fidel Castro. In the earliest days of CNN, when CNN was meant to be seen only in the United States, the enterprising Fidel Castro was pirating and watching CNN in Cuba. Fidel was intrigued by CNN. He wanted to meet the person responsible. So Ted Turner, who at that point had never traveled to a Communist country or knowingly met a Communist, [went to Havana]. It was big deal for Ted and during the discussions Castro suggested that CNN be made available to the entire world. In fact it was that seed, that idea that grew into CNN International, which is now seen in every country and territory on the planet.
Naaawwww. Say it ain’t So! So what do you suppose attracted Fidel Castro to CNN? Imagine… Eason Jordan laying this claim to fame at Harvard. Disgusting.
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Castro Inspired CNN
As per ‘Commie Dictator’ Castro Inspired CNN, Ted Turner Admits click here
Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, said it was Cuban “commie dictator” Fidel Castro who inspired him to broadcast CNN into other countries around the world.
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Could it be the constant propoganda that CNN spouts? Useful for any dictator, it has to be said. Maybe the Amero-centric news which suggests that no other nations in the world exist except occasionally when they do something that affects America. I can think of all sorts of brilliant tools a dictator could see in CNN.
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Why am I not surprised that Castro is such a big fan of CNN.
Why am I not surprised that Eason Jordan spoke at Harvard thanking Fidel Castro for his contribution?
Another slightly off topic comment (sorry). Please take a look at this.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050201/ids_photos_wl/r810027545.jpg
Even a communist can have a good idea once in awhile and NO I do not espouse any left of center creed before anyone asks me ! Castro is a dictator and a tyrant.
Yikes, gindy, that’s a pretty scarey image, considering it’s fairly recent. Looks like nazis saluting. But then…I’m finding more and more reasons to call them Islamonazis.
I’m curious as to whether or not you know the varying definitions of the term “dictator” and that perhaps Turner was using it in the “Absolute Ruler” definition – not the “murdering tyrant” definition. And that Turner is known to have an inflammatory way of expressing his sense of humor. He is also one of the most successful CAPITALISTS in the world and wouldn’t have any of what he has if he were a communist. A Benevolent Dictatorship is the loving term applied to the family unit, in that a family run by a parent or parents is not a democracy and they have absolute rule, albeit benevolent, over the children in that family. According to the dictionary, dictator means: 1. An absolute ruler.
2. A tyrant; a despot.
3. An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
4. One who dictates: These initials are those of the dictator of the letter.
Now to the subject of the ACLU – why on earth would the ACLU be considered even remotely to be a communist organization – their sole function is to protect the United States Constitution. That’s it. Nothing more. They are not pushing for communal living, or overthrowing capitalism so that no one owns anything and religion is banned in any form whatsoever…they exist to protect the rights of the American Citizen. If you’re an American, why WOULDN’T you support that?
While it’s amusing that Castro gave Turner the idea for CNN International, it pretty much ends there. The rest is just a game of making connections–Castro, Turner, Jordan–where none of consequence exist. I’m not defending Eason Jordan or Castro (or Turner, really), but Turner’s no commie and Castro’s no Stalin. And Eason Jordan owe’s everybody an explanation.
If you look under the covers, you’ll see that Turner has a lot of impact and is spending a lot of money to advance communism. To imagine that his drinking with Castro was just an innocent night out with a nice guy is a pretty far stretch.
Now, I just turn CNN off, because it doesn’t represent American interests. ‘Commie Dictator’ Castro Inspired CNN, Ted Turner Admits
The Cuban-American National Foundation, no friend of the Castro government, said Castro uses CNN as a “propaganda tool.” According to CANF, most ordinary Cubans don’t ever see the network.
“CNN cannot be seen in Cuba because the other types of news it does carry represent freedom of the press, which is banned in Cuba,” said CANF spokeswoman Mariela Ferretti.
“So the only places that you can see CNN inside of Cuba are in the hotels for the exclusive use of foreigners,” she said.
“It’s contradictory that someone who has made millions of dollars on the basis of free press such as Ted Turner should take his cues from someone who has done everything in his power to make sure there is no freedom of the press in his own country of Cuba.”
Turner was criticized earlier this year for calling Fidel Castro “one hell of a guy.”
“Have you ever met him?” Turner asked a class at Harvard Law School. “You’d like him. He has been the leader of Cuba for 40 years. He’s the most senior leader in the world, and most of the people that are still in Cuba like him.”
Turner later apologized for those remarks.
TED TURNER COMPARES RISE IN FOX NEWS POPULARITY TO HITLER
So when people talk this rhetoric, I know precisely where it’s coming from, lol…
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Go peddle your stupid-***, piss-ant website somewhere else … in fact, go post it on a bunch of “Jihad” websites, loser!:twisted:
I changed the link to that Cuba travel website to a blog post that says “Cuba Sucks”. That was trackback spam that snuck under the filter. Yat, you crack me up.
“I changed the link to that Cuba travel website to a blog post that says “Cuba Sucks”. That was trackback spam that snuck under the filter. Yat, you crack me up.”
Quite the contrary, Cao — you crack me up … thanks for changing that link!:mrgreen: