"Turner blasts Fox Network"

This is a pretty old article, but it hasn't lost its comic value yet for me, so I thought I'd share it with...you all.
It was taken from The Californian's "Back Page" in which all articles or clips possessing a strange nature are printed.


(AP) --- Cable news pioneer Ted Turner used an apperance before a group of TV executives to criticize the Fox network as a "propaganda voice" of the Bush administration and to compare Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany before World War II.

Turner, 66, in a speech Tuesday (whenever that was) before about 1,000 people at the National Association of Television Programming Executives targeted "gigantic companies whose agenda goes beyond broadcasting" for timidity in challenging the Bush White House.
"There's one network, Fox, that's a propaganda voice for them," Turner said. "It's certainly legal. But it does pose problems for our democracy (it's a republic, I say once again...) when the news is 'dumbed-down.'" (no comment..)

Fox News in New York issued a statement Tuesday saying, "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind --- we wish him well."

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