Shaking Up the Networks

COVER STORY

Outrageous as ever, Ted Turner is changing the face of TV news

He is a Southerner's Southerner, a good ole boy on a howl whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind. Yet he lived in Cincinnati until he was nine, headed at 17 to Brown University in the Ivy League to study ancient Greek culture, and has since sailed and socialized with the privileged around the world.

He is a celebrated woman chaser who bragged to a Playboy interviewer that he photographs nude women. Yet he laments the decline of family values and deplores displays...

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