My grandpa has always hated Ted Turner...

I am using my fiance's computer, which is glorious because it has two monitors and isn't as terrible as my busted laptop, but awful because he somehow exists without having Microsoft Office on his computer, so I'm typing directly in to the blog, which I hate! But I digress...

Anyhow, I got this link sent to me the other day.

I kind of already knew that Ted Turner was crazy, but some of his comments were a bit surprising. To be honest, I do agree with bits of what he said, that I'm not going to go in to, but overall I think this article blows his comments out of proportion.

Realistically, Turner is a man; a US citizen with with a right to freedom of speech. Yes, he owns a media empire, but his comments were not made on CNN, nor were they presented as fact. People say a lot of crazy shit on news-style talk shows, for reference, look for anything ever said by Ann Coulter.

And beyond that, his own bias does not, in my opinion, reflect on CNN's coverage of the news. As I have said before, more than anything else, media bias stems from money, not politics. Obviously there is bias of all kinds in the media, including liberal and conservative, but Ted Turner's "crazy" opinions don't have any more influence than Rupert Murdoch's.

It is always good to be critical of what you read and hear, and as a public figure, Turner is obviously subject to stricter criticism, but I don't think his personal opinions are cause for an article on a web site devoted to "exposing and combating liberal media bias." While I applaud the efforts of website like News Busters because I think what they do is important, no matter their political stance, Ted Turner is not the news and thus does not qualify for "busting."