Views On The Shifting Media Landscape
Turner claims to have predicted the demise of newspapers 30 years ago and has called print journalism “an obsolete way of distributing information.” Ted Turner also became more critical of media consolidation around 2004. He expressed some regret that he took advantage of the relaxed rules that allowed greater concentration of media ownership, and raised concerns about the quality of information and debate in an environment where the news is controlled by only a few wealthy corporations and individuals.
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