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sad cnn |
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Yes, Reese isn't the final authority... |
| Date Posted: |
05/25/2005 |
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1. Ted NEVER tried to make CNN ready for sale (you might be confusing his decision to sell turner broadcasting to Time Warner. CNN was a tiny part of Turner and after the sale, Ted continued to try to get Time Warner to BUY a network to combine with CNN.
2. consultants.
they simply were NEVER a major part of anythiing that happened at CNN in the Ted years.
3. CNN accurately saw that you needed to have stars in the new environment. You and I might wish that wasn't true, but it is
4. The fact that you quote Reese S.'s book shows why you have it wrong.
Guess how long Reese was at CNN. About a year.
He is very bitter about his dismissal by Ted and gets a lot of that out in the book with some truths, some half truths, some misleading bits.
Reese's book ain't a fair history. |
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...and his book left much to be desired, but if you don't think consultants were a major part of Ted's final years, well then, you weren't on-air at CNN, back then...
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