Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler ! DRUDGE REPORT FLASH

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Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler ! DRUDGE REPORT FLASH

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Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler !

 

 

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TED TURNER COMPARES FOXNEWS TO HITLER

Tue Jan 25 2005 15:53:55 ET

 

Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared

FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany

before WWII.

 

Turner made the controversial comments in Las Vegas before a

standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television

Programming Executives's opening session.

 

His no-nonsense, humorous approach during the one-hour Q & A generated

frequent loud applause and laughter, BROADCASTING & CABLE reports.

 

While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's

CNN], it's not the best, Turner said.

 

He followed up by pointing out that Adolf Hitler got the most votes

when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network

is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration.

 

" There's nothing wrong with that. It's certainly legal. But it does

pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed

down, " leaving voters without critical information on politics and

world events and overloaded with fluff, " he said.

 

A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: " Ted is understandably bitter having

lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well. "

 

In 1996, Turner apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for

comments he made comparing FOX head Rupert Murdoch to Hitler.

 

Developing...

[Guest guest]

It's my understanding that Ted Turner no longer

controls CNN.

This is an excerpt from an article that analyzes who

owns what in the media.

Who contols the media is of obvious significance to

any question of bias.

http://www.realnews247.com/who_rules_america_updated_2004.htm

 

Notes regarding Ted Turner’s CNN from “Updated: Who

Rules America?”

Pages 3-5

Electronic News and Entertainment Media

 

Continuing government deregulation of the

telecommunications industry has resulted, not in the

touted increase of competition, but rather in an

accelerating wave of corporate mergers and

acquisitions that have produced a handful of

multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates. The largest

of these conglomerates are rapidly growing even bigger

by consuming their competition, almost tripling in

size during the 1990s. Whenever you watch television,

whether from a local broadcasting station or via cable

or a satellite dish; whenever you see a feature film

in a theater or at home; whenever you listen to the

radio or to recorded music; whenever you read a

newspaper, book, or magazine—it is very likely that

the information or entertainment you receive was

produced and/or distributed by one of these megamedia

companies:

 

Time Warner. The largest media conglomerate today is

Time Warner (briefly called AOL-Time Warner; the AOL

was dropped from the name when accounting practices at

the AOL division were questioned by government

investigators), which reached its current form when

America Online bought Time Warner for $160 billion in

2000. The combined company had revenue of $39.5

billion in 2003. The merger brought together Steve

Case, a Gentile, as chairman of AOL-Time Warner, and

Gerald Levin, a Jew, as the CEO. Warner, founded by

the Jewish Warner brothers in the early part of the

last century, rapidly became part of the Jewish power

base in Hollywood, a fact so well-known that it is

openly admitted by Jewish authors, as is the fact that

each new media acquisition becomes dominated by Jews

in turn: Speaking of the initial merger of Time, Inc.

with Warner, Jewish writer Michael Wolff said in New

York magazine in 2001 " since Time Inc.'s merger with

Warner ten years ago, one of the interesting

transitions is that it has become a Jewish company. "

( " From AOL to W, " New York magazine, January 29, 2001)

 

The third most powerful man at AOL-Time Warner, at

least on paper, was Vice Chairman Ted Turner, a White

Gentile. Turner had traded his Turner Broadcasting

System, which included CNN, to Time Warner in 1996 for

a large block of Time Warner shares. By April 2001

Levin had effectively fired Ted Turner, eliminating

him from any real power. However, Turner remained a

very large and outspoken shareholder and member of the

board of directors.

 

Levin overplayed his hand, and in a May 2002 showdown,

he was fired by the company's board. For Ted Turner,

who had lost $7 billion of his $9 billion due to

Levin's mismanagement, it was small solace. Turner

remains an outsider with no control over the inner

workings of the company. Also under pressure, Steve

Case resigned effective in May 2003. The board

replaced both Levin and Case with a Black, Richard

Parsons. Behind Parsons the Jewish influence and power

remains dominant.

 

AOL is the largest Internet service provider in the

world, with 34 million U.S. rs. It is now

being used as an online platform for the Jewish

content from Time Warner. Jodi Kahn and Meg Siesfeld,

both Jews, lead the Time Inc. Interactive team under

executive editor Ned Desmond, a White Gentile. All

three report to Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman

Pearlstine, a Jew. Their job is to transfer Time

Warner's content to target specific segments of

America Online's audience, especially women, children,

and teens.

 

Time Warner was already the second largest of the

international media leviathans when it merged with

AOL. Time Warner's subsidiary HBO (26 million

rs) is the nation's largest pay-TV cable

network. HBO's " competitor " Cinemax is another of Time

Warner's many cable ventures.

 

Until the purchase in May 1998 of PolyGram by Jewish

billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music was

America's largest record company, with 50 labels.

Warner Music was an early promoter of " gangsta rap. "

Through its involvement with Interscope Records (prior

to Interscope's acquisition by another Jewish-owned

media firm), it helped to popularize a genre whose

graphic lyrics explicitly urge Blacks to commit acts

of violence against Whites. Bronfman purchased Warner

Music in 2004, keeping it solidly in Jewish hands.

 

In addition to cable and music, Time Warner is heavily

involved in the production of feature films (Warner

Brothers Studio, Castle Rock Entertainment, and New

Line Cinema). Time Warner's publishing division is

managed by its editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstein, a

Jew. He controls 50 magazines including Time, Life,

Sports Illustrated, and People. Book publishing

ventures include Time-Life Books, Book-of-the-Month

Club, Little Brown, and many others. Time Warner also

owns Shoutcast and Winamp, the very tools that most

independent Internet radio broadcasters rely on, and,

as a dominant player in the Recording Industry

Association of America (RIAA), was essentially

" negotiating " with itself when Internet radio music

royalty rules were set that strongly favored large

content providers and forced many small broadcasters

into silence. (The Register, " AOL Time Warner takes

grip of net radio, " 8th April 2003)

 

Ted Turner's Lesson: " Be very careful with whom you

merge. "

 

When Ted Turner, the Gentile media maverick, made a

bid to buy CBS in 1985, there was panic in the media

boardrooms across the country. Turner had made a

fortune in advertising and then built a successful

cable-TV news network, CNN, with over 70 million

rs.

 

Although Turner had never taken a stand contrary to

Jewish interests, he was regarded by William Paley and

the other Jews at CBS as uncontrollable: a loose

cannon who might at some time in the future turn

against them. Furthermore, Jewish newsman Daniel

Schorr, who had worked for Turner, publicly charged

that his former boss held a personal dislike for Jews.

 

To block Turner's bid, CBS executives invited

billionaire Jewish theater, hotel, insurance, and

cigarette magnate Laurence Tisch to launch a

" friendly " takeover of CBS. From 1986 to 1995 Tisch

was the chairman and CEO of CBS, removing any threat

of non-Jewish influence there. Subsequent efforts by

Ted Turner to acquire CBS were obstructed by Gerald

Levin's Time Warner, which owned nearly 20 percent of

CBS stock and had veto power over major deals. But

when his fellow Jew Sumner Redstone offered to buy CBS

for $34.8 billion in 1999, Levin had no objections.

 

Thus, despite being an innovator and garnering

headlines, Turner never commanded the " connections "

necessary for being a media master. He finally decided

if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, and he sold out to

Levin's Time Warner. Ted Turner summed it up:

 

" I've had an incredible life for the most part. I made

a lot of smart moves, and I made a lot of money. Then

something happened, and I merged with Time Warner,

which looked like the right thing to do at the time.

And it was good for shareholders.

 

" But then I lost control. I thought I would have

enough moral authority to have all the influence in

the new company. If you go into business, be very

careful with whom you merge.

 

" I thought I was buying Time Warner, but they were

buying me. We had kind of a difference in viewpoint.

Then they merged with AOL, and that was a complete

disaster, at least so far. I have lost 85 percent of

my wealth. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

It's simply not true, that FOX is the only major media " arm of the Bush

administration. It should be clear that the support received by the current

delusional Republican Administration from media, is strong, and shared by

" all " the networks, not just FOX, but simply to a lesser, though not

necessairly a much lesser, degree.

JP

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:11 AM

Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler

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Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:55:12 -0500

Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler ! DRUDGE REPORT FLASH

2005® A

 

 

 

Ted Turner Compares FOX NEWS to Hitler !

 

 

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3tt.htm

 

TED TURNER COMPARES FOXNEWS TO HITLER

Tue Jan 25 2005 15:53:55 ET

 

Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared

FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany

before WWII.

 

Turner made the controversial comments in Las Vegas before a

standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television

Programming Executives's opening session.

 

His no-nonsense, humorous approach during the one-hour Q & A generated

frequent loud applause and laughter, BROADCASTING & CABLE reports.

 

While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's

CNN], it's not the best, Turner said.

 

He followed up by pointing out that Adolf Hitler got the most votes

when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network

is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration.

 

" There's nothing wrong with that. It's certainly legal. But it does

pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed

down, " leaving voters without critical information on politics and

world events and overloaded with fluff, " he said.

 

A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: " Ted is understandably bitter having

lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well. "

 

In 1996, Turner apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for

comments he made comparing FOX head Rupert Murdoch to Hitler.

 

Developing...

[Guest guest]

I disagree, they are completely blatant in their right wing position, much more

so that any other network

 

 

 

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" Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. "

Danish proverb

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

That's my point. FOX is " blatant " about their devotion to right wing

thinking. The other networks are cautious and a little more subtle about

their devotion to right wing thinking, but in both cases, it's " devotion. "

In the long run, we're probably a bit better off with FOX, because you're

better off with the bigot you can see, than the one who hides his bigotry

so that those in the world that aren't his principal victims, cannot see his

bigotry clearly.

JP

 

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Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:24 AM

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