Things You Didn't Know
Ted Turner on starting an all-news network: “There are only four things that television does: It does movies, and HBO has beaten me to that. It does sports, and now ESPN’s got that. There’s the regular series kinda stuff, and the three networks have beaten me to that. All that’s left is news! And I’ve got to get there before anybody else does.”
CNN, now the world’s largest and most respected news organization, got little respect in its infancy. With a small budget, a preponderance of newly graduated journalists, and few news bureaus, CNN was forced to sue (and obviously won the lawsuit) to gain access to White House press conferences.
Larry King has accumulated more than 40,000 interviews throughout his 47-year career.
