Ted Turner Hates ‘What Zucker Did with CNN’

CNN founder Ted Turner despises “what Jeff Zucker did with CNN,” according to his biographer and longtime friend, Porter Bibb.
Bibb, who has been a close friend of Turner’s for almost fifty years and wrote the billionaire’s biography nearly 30 years ago, says the larger-than-life Turner is in bad shape now. The 83-year-old businessman and philanthropist is in declining health due to Lewy Body Syndrome, the same incurable brain disease Robin Williams suffered from before he committed suicide.
In a lengthy interview with the Ankler, Bibb discloses that he stays in close touch with Turner and the two of them have discussed the fall of CNN:
[ANKLER] What does Turner think about CNN now?
[BIBB]: I have not spoken to him [recently], because candidly he cannot really carry on a conversation. His brain is starting to go. But he’s been adamantly [against] what Zucker did with CNN, turning it into an opinion network, to compete with Fox and losing the concept of hard news 24/7 was wrong.
Q. He’d agree with John Malone (who suggested CNN emphasize hard news)? 
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