Ted Turner

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This paper examines the life of Ted Turner, born Robert Edward Turner III in 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio and who is considered one of the richest men in the world today. It looks at how his empire includes a myriad of ventures, such as the Atlanta Braves baseball team and TNT, Turner Network Television. It discusses how, as a media mogul, Turner is best known for creating CNN, the first all-news cable television station. It shows how throughout his life, he has maintained a competitive spirit and demonstrated leadership qualities by transforming innovative ideas into reality.

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"Turner has been a lifelong environmentalist and humanitarian. In the 1985, Turner founded the Better World Society, a production company dedicated to making documentaries to educate people about issues such as pollution, hunger, and the danger of the nuclear arms race. A year later, he founded The Goodwill Games in an effort to promote world peace and in 1992 the Turner Tomorrow Awards as an incentive for writers around the world to create positive solutions to world problems (Hanson pg). Turner has produced numerous "documentaries and fact-based feature films on his TNT channel to show the development of American history from the Native American" perspective and highlight their contributions to the United States (Hanson pg). As a child Turner dreamed of bison grazing, and today he has roughly 17,000 bison roaming on nine ranches, part of an effort to restore the American West to its glory days when the Sioux dominated the Great Plains (Haddad C1)."

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