Ted Turner: 'I Wanted CNN To Be Like The New York Times'
"The emphasis should be on - hard news," Turner, who launched the network in 1980, told CNN's Piers Morgan in an interview that will air tonight. "I...
"The emphasis should be on - hard news," Turner, who launched the network in 1980, told CNN's Piers Morgan in an interview that will air tonight. "I...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012
While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.
AP | Posted 04.26.2012
RAPID CITY, South Dakota (AP) — CNN founder Ted Turner is opposing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would be built close to his b...
The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 01.18.2012
Jane Fonda was featured on Oprah's Master Class Sunday, where she revealed how her divorce shaped her as a person. The 74-year-old legend recalled...
Posted 02.11.2012
On "The Rosie Show" (Weeknights, 7PM ET on OWN), Jane Fonda said that she didn't have to prepare at all for her role in "Monster-in-Law." Instead, she...
Posted 01.03.2012
"Zip it, Tilda," may be the greatest thing anyone has ever shouted at Conan O'Brien. Will Forte did a surprise drop-in as Ted Turner on Conan's New...
Gary He | Posted 11.28.2011
Last week, as world leaders arrived in NYC for the UN General Assembly and Clinton Global Initiative, another conference was taking place with a focus on using innovation and technology to solve the world's greatest challenges.
Posted 11.20.2011
Ted Turner took some shots at his longtime rival Rupert Murdoch during an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday. Turner spoke about the phone hacking...
John Farr | Posted 11.04.2011
This 63-year-old feature looked almost as if it had been shot last week. I was intensely aware of Moira Shearer's heavy make-up and could literally see Anton Walbrook's pores. It was fascinating, hypnotic, but also more than a little distracting.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.29.2011
Google "Jane Fonda hate site" and you get 10 million results. She's a 73-year-old actress who had her last box office hit thirty years ago. So why is she hated?
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 09.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will host the nation's two wealthiest private citizens, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, at the White House on Monday to r...
Posted 08.23.2011
With all of the furor surrounding entrepreneur-run college drop-out programs, HuffPost College decided to take a look at some famous college expulsio...
Suzanne Skees | Posted 07.31.2011
For Warren Buffet and me, giving feels really good, because the truth is, we receive more than the supposed recipient. This thing we call "love of humankind," philanthropy, infuses our whole being with love of self.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.24.2011
ANAHEIM, C.A. -- Philanthropist and CNN founder Ted Turner has turned his sights to renewable energy -- and he had some fighting words for the wind in...
Alexia Parks | Posted 07.13.2011
A 10-year-old Aztec boy named Xiuhtezcatl is inspiring thousands of youth who are linking up around the world and marching together to protect the environment.
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.31.2011
How often do we avoid taking an action out of the fear of other people's opinions of our failure? Innovators are better at identifying the true risk of a situation and are more willing to fail than others.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
Who do you think is more likely to attract an audience -- the charming, charismatic Clinton, or the mean and menacing Spitzer?
Tom Watson | Posted 05.25.2011
You won't find it on Time Warner or Cablevision, but Al Jazeera's English language television service is laying claim to the viewing loyalty of news-hungry, media-obsessed Westerners.
Posted 05.25.2011
"SNL" alum Will Forte reprised his role as TBS founder Ted Turner on 'Conan' Tuesday night, riding in on his stuffed Buffalo Teddy Jr. to give Conan h...
Kelly Rigg | Posted 05.25.2011
Whatever you think about the Cancun Agreements, there's no doubt that the climate movement needs to up its game in 2011.
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. What happened next was unexpected.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011
Chuck Leavell has been a melodic force behind some of rock 'n' roll's biggest acts. But he is also a committed conservationist and tree farmer.
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
Driving change and convincing people that green is good for business requires logic, facts, examples ... but also passion, emotion, and yes, cheerleading. What's wrong with celebrating every now and then?
Posted 05.25.2011
Ted Turner said he has given so much of his money away that he is "almost to the edge of poverty." Speaking on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," Turner sa...
Posted 05.25.2011
Over the summer, billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett announced The Giving Pledge, a commitment to donate the majority of their fortunes to char...
politico.com | DYLAN BYERS | | Posted 05.04.2012