Soundbite: Ted Turner Wishes Print Would Hurry Up And Die Already

“You’re chopping all these trees down and making paper out of them and trying to deal with all the waste paper. It’s the biggest solid waste problem that we have.”
-CNN founder Ted Turner has plenty of problems with the way cable news is trending, but he just does not understand the fascination with these laborious, wasteful newspapers, according to his appearance on Bloomberg TV as reported by the Hollywood Reporter. Check out the video here.

Turner went on to say, “I’d like to see me running Time Warner,” specifically CNN and Cartoon Network, and that if he was in charge, CNN would have “less talk, more news.” The media mogul called much of the network’s content “fluffy news” before sharing one of his ideas for the channel of cartoons he founded: “If I had control of it, I’d put ‘Captain Planet’ on at a top time period so that kids would see the environmental superhero instead of just Superman.” There you have it.

(h/t Romenesko)

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