Ted Turner: 'I wanted CNN to be like the New York Times'

politico.com — Amid falling ratings and negative press, CNN founder Ted Turner is defending his network's attempts to offer straightforward, nonpartisan cable news while the competition -- Fox News and MSNBC -- drifts ever further toward the ideological fringes. "The emphasis should be on - hard news," Turner, who founded CNN in 1980, told the network's...
Nifty framing of the options, @dylanbyers. "Straightforward, nonpartisan cable news" vs. "the ideological fringes. " t.co/tR6VjuDd