CNN: Preferred by more Communist dictators than any other network!
Written on June 13, 2005
You just can’t make this stuff up. Ted Turner admitted that the reason he took CNN global was because “pretty intelligent” dictator Fidel Castro felt it was “important” to “the whole world”:
“You know, I got the idea to go global from Fidel Castro. The signal spilled into Cuba and he heard about it — and he’s pretty intelligent — and he bought a satellite dish or got one somehow, and started watching the news and he said it was incredibly important. When I met him in ‘82, he said, ‘Ted, the whole world needs CNN.’ He said, ‘I use it all the time and it’s very important to me.’ So I said, ‘Well if Castro needs it, certainly the capitalists around the world could use it, and perhaps some other communists, too.’”
Why not hear him say it himself? (MP3 format)
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