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Ted Turner: "My Beef With Big Media"
Verbose article by a sore loser who unwittingly admits it.

In the end, I found the only way to stay competitive was to merge with Time Warner and relinquish control of my companies.

In the news business, competitive = trusted by the public. Translation: they left CNN in droves and the much-ballyhooed "merger" with Time-Warner was a bailout.