Ted Turner: Give peace a chance
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/21/2003 6:55:00 AM
Former AOL Time Warner Inc. vice chairman Ted Turner has always had a different view of the world than other media moguls.
"That's the thing that bothers me," he said Monday night in New York. "With CNN [Cable News Network], it's a global company, and every time we go out and bomb somebody, we are bombing some of our customers."
Turner made the comments as he accepted an award from the T. Howard Foundation, which promotes hiring women and minorities in the satellite-TV industry.
"The best way to combat anything that is bad in the world is to give people an equal opportunity. If you make friends out of everybody, they won't want to terrorize everybody," he added.
Turner said he misses the media business. "I didn't leave the business voluntarily. I kind of hung around a long time after I should have probably gone," he said.
Turner is pouring millions of dollars into a chain of restaurants, Ted's Montana Grill.
"If I had started a few years sooner in the restaurant business, McDonald's [Corp.] would have been quaking in their shoes right now," he said.
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