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An employee of the multinational cable news channel CNN.
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“Why did he do it?” was a common question. Several former CNNers offered an explanation. Reese Schonfeld recalled, “Ted [Turner] has always had an enormous drive for power . . . sex and money was a distant third.”
Ted Turner, it’s said, fines CNNers who use the word “foreign” (we’re all in this together, as he sees it); […]
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CNN founder Ted Turner, at an Ash Wednesday retirement party for the legendary anchor Bernard Shaw, noticed the ashes on many of his CNNers’ foreheads and said, “What are you, a bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for FOX.”
His extramarital involvement with Katie [Couric] was a topic of gossip at Harrison’s, the local watering hole favored by CNNers.
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Former CNNers who were instrumental in helping me grow, as well as offering me career guidance, include Sue Bunda, Peter Dykstra, Sandy Malcolm, and Henry Mauldin.
While some CNNers say the pair supported Katie [Couric] and that she benefited from their support, others say they led her on.
CNNers anywhere in the world could report developments quickly to anyone network-wide who had an interest in the story (the alias still exists, for any new details).
In just my first week, I heard stories of past CNNers falling in love with Cubans and being quickly discarded by their would-be Cuban life mates shortly after they arrived in the States.
But it wasn’t just a lot of my fellow CNNers who were convinced that Hillary Clinton was going to carry the state as part of what came to be called the “blue wall”—Northeastern and Midwestern industrial states that were presumed to be in the Democratic (Clinton) corner.
The way old-time CNNers saw it, hiring Rick Kaplan away from ABC News was the clearest message that things were not going to stay the same.
Some of these Dems and CNNers will tell you I said nigger, but I didn’t.