Ted Turner Quotes
The more complex our world becomes, the more we rely on that electronic window to help us process it all. And the greater the responsibility we must shoulder to see that it is used as fairly as it is fearlessly.
Ted Turner, TV Network Owner, The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Reflections on Working Toward Peace
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Nixon shortly thereafter hired Ailes to run his television campaign operations. At the time, there was still much debate as to whether television had any serious place in political campaigning. Ailes was not only ahead of his time conceptually, but developed many of the basic techniques that politicians used with television for years thereafter.
Ronald Reagan’s media expert, Michael Deaver, developed a new approach to Presidential appearances. He realized that if the President made a 5 or 10 minute speech at an event, the Evening News would choose one or two 10-15 second excerpts, and that was what the vast majority of the country would see. Therefore, he reasoned, the words spoken meant relatively little. It was the image what would last in people’s memory. Therefore, he worked hard to concentrate on getting the right background for the President’s appearance. The Statue of Liberty, a naval ship, a factory at work. The set of images that people would have of the President in these different appearances would define the President in the minds of most people. Deaver would be more concerned that the TV camera’s showed the background scene he had planned (rather than a strange angle or just a close-up of the President’s face) than he would be about which words—sound bytes—the TV station would select. Hence Baker’s observation that words were less important than the TV images.
The Senator was referring to the difficulty that governments have in censoring and controlling information on the Internet.
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks
Media inventors seem to have an overly optimistic view of the invention’s effect. See {635263}.
Given the early year, with television available in only New York and large cities and hardly any viewers, it is fascinating that White could see the importance of the new medium. Masters of old media tend to underestimate the power and advantage of new media.
At the time he wrote this, the Chinese government heavily censored the Internet. While there was an enormous unprecedented access to information, much was unavailable to most Chinese.
Haldeman was then an advertising executive nat J. Walter Thompson
Robert Edward Turner III is an American media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS.
