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'''Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III''' is an American [[media mogul]]. He is known as founder of the [[Cable News Network]] (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. | '''Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III''' is an American [[media mogul]]. He is known as founder of the [[Cable News Network]] (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. |
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Ted Turner (Media tycoon) | |
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Born | Robert Edward Turner III 1938-11-19 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Children | 5 |
Spouse | Julia Gale Nye |
Founder of | Nuclear Threat Initiative |
Member of | Population Institute, The Giving Pledge, "The Good Club" |
Interests | “Overpopulation” |
US "liberal" media mogul and zealous financier of projects designed to lower the world's population. |
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. He is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel.
Overpopulation
Turner has long been known as a champion of population control. In 1996, he put $125 million into a foundation to support environmental and population control efforts in the U.S. and abroad. The endowment spends about $6 million a year on projects designed to lower the world's population from the present six billion people to two billion or less.[1]
The billionaire, who has 5 children himself, wants "fertility rights" to be sold, so that poor people "could profit from their decision not to reproduce".[2]
Windswept House
According to the Traditional Roman Catholic Network, Turner is mentioned as Brad Gerstein-Snell in Malachi Martins 1996 book: Windswept House: A Vatican Novel.