I’m sorry but they gotta put TED TURNER’S CASKET in the middle of Atlanta and stop traffic for like 2 hours. Or at least put his body in the middle of Centennial Park. Or in front of the CNN sign. SOMETHING.
a national treasure.
✅ saved both the braves & hawks
✅ cemented atlanta’s international status with a media conglomerate
✅ invented 24 hour news
✅ made ATL the #1 choice for 1996 Olympics
✅ created captain planet to teach kids about environmentalism
✅ Jane fonda’s favorite ex-husband
✅ singled handedly saved america’s buffalos from extinction
✅ pro-palestine before & after 9/11
Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/CboJPpPBiC
The reason millennials are so nostalgic is that they got a brief taste of a world that wasn’t entirely controlled by the stupidest people who’ve ever lived.