As Lisa noted, at the 25th anniversary celebration for CNN, Ted Turner said this:

I would like to see us return to a little more international coverage on the domestic feed and a little more environmental coverage, and maybe a little less pervert of the day.

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Every issue of Newsweek has a page with cartoons and quotes from the week. This week, one of them is this:

“I would like to see us return to a little more international coverage … And maybe a little less pervert of the day.”

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CNN founder Ted Turner, on what he’d change about the channel now, if he could

They won’t even cover him lamenting the lack of environmental coverage!