what changed? the head of the company change. the president of siena now is jeff tucker. he is responsible for the change. here s how i once described him on this program. summoned his minions. from across the cable empire, they gathered as beckoning, each with talking points ready. so if it sounds like something out of harry potter, that s because in some ways it is. you won t see gargoyles at cnn headquarters but you can feel the political ambitions of the man who runs every detail of that place. it often feels like every segment on that channel is choreographed for maximum political effect. if you ve ever seen it, you know exactly what we are saying and it turns out, there is a reason it feels that way. earlier today, the group,
while, the head of the company changed. the president of cnn now is jeff zucker. he s responsible for the change. here s how i once described to him on this program. from his shadowy layer hidden high above the newsroom, cnn s secretive dwarf king s letter to the intercom and summoned his minions. from across the cable empire they gathered at his beckoning, each with talking points ready. tucker: and so if it sounds like something out of harry potter but that s because in some ways it is. you won t see gargoyles at cnn headquarters, but you can feel the political ambitions of the man who runs every detail of that place. since zucker took over cnn almost seven years ago it often feels like every segment on that channel is choreographed for maximum political effect. if you ve ever seen it, you know exactly what we are saying. it turns out there s a reason it feels that way. earlier today, the group project
by making them commercial, there s a reason for ranchers to have them. once we do that the gene pool starts to expand. we ve doubled the size of the herd. the truth of the matter is, and this is ted s words, not mine, the restaurants have kept me alive. he calls me every morning, he wants to know what s going on, he s involved. you know, it lifts his spirits. won t run out of food. he made sure that if he was no longer the head of this empire that he built, that he would have something to step into that would challenge him and keep him going. i mean, it was genius. ted is still on top of the world and thinking about what can be done to make it a better place. we must never dismiss who he is and who he s been and what he has done for the world is beyond any individual that i can think of, and we just never forget that.
would like to have you come to cnn. i had never seen cnn. that wasn t the only obstacle. larry already had a job. and ted wanted him to start at cnn just four days later. they called the show larry king live. i knew ten minutes into that show, ten minutes talking to mario cuomo, that show was going to make it. ted saw that. ted saw that. cnn was growing. here s looking at you, kid. so was the rest of ted s empire. he bought mgm s entire library of films, including his favorite movie gone with the wind . frankly my dear, i don t give a damn. then launched tnt, a network that would air them. after that cartoon network. turner classic movies. and networks in latin-america, asia, europe, and the middle east. ted s next conquest would be personal.
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