Ted Turner is gone, and the silence feels unreal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man who invented 24-hour news has signed off forever at 87, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
leaving a flickering, uneasy void on the screens he created.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ted Turner\u2019s death at 87 closes a chapter that remade how the world witnesses history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He inherited a shaky billboard company after his father\u2019s suicide and turned it, through audacity and risk, into a sprawling media empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CNN, launched in 1980 and mocked as \u201cChicken Noodle News,\u201d became indispensable during <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the Persian Gulf War, when its live coverage pulled an anxious planet around a single glowing screen. Turner\u2019s vision didn\u2019t stop there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies and Cartoon Network all sprang from the same restless imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was loud, impulsive, sometimes reckless, but also a philanthropist who gave billions to causes he believed might outlast him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His decade-long marriage to Jane Fonda fused Hollywood glamour with media power, even as it ultimately unraveled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Battling Lewy body dementia in his final years, Turner watched the industry he helped create fracture and multiply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet, as CNN\u2019s chief said, he remains its \u201cpresiding spirit\u201d \u2014 the risk-taker who proved that news, like life, never really goes off the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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