Posted on 02/14/2005 4:48:51 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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:
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.
I wonder what could have attracted Fidel Castro so strongly to CNN?
Very well said.
As Ward Churchill is not an educator but an indoctrinator.
As Judges do not follow the law, but interpret how they think it should be.
They are activists, not professionals.
Very well said.
As Ward Churchill is not an educator but an indoctrinator.
As Judges do not follow the law, but interpret how they think it should be.
They are activists, not professionals.
Hey, Peter Jennings is a high school drop out and it hasn't stopped him.
Yes, they are all of them, certified, credentialed or not, activists
Jim Burns, CNSNews.com Friday, Nov. 30, 2001
CNN’s Coverage of Castro’s Cuba, 1997-2002
"Early on with this rule we ran into problems. One morning
He feels so strongly about there being just one world and one race he has banned one word at CNN -- the F word: foreign. While Ted Turner and CNN recognize nations, Ted's view is the only true foreigners are people from other planets, at least until Ted Turner meets those people. So Ted Turner does not want the word "foreign" mentioned on CNN and has called on me to enforce a ban by fining guilty CNN staffers $100 per violation.
Ted called me. He was in a rage. CNN was in the midst of a live interview with the Russian foreign minister. (This is all true.) Ted was screaming. "Eason, I told you never to allow that word on CNN." I said, "Ted, his title is foreign minister." Ted just couldn't accept that. He was outraged. He huffed and he puffed, and then he yelled. "Damn it. You tell him to change his title." The Russian foreign minister refused to do so.'
No ego problems there, no sir.
tell us something we don't know!
Baltimore Md. It's illegal to take a lion to the movies.
hmmmm...I didn't know that.
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