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Media mogul Robert E. "Ted" Turner sent a packed crowd of students and journalists into hysterics at the ARCO forum last night as he described the beginnings of the Cable News Network (CNN) in the 1970s...
Turner said he conceived of CNN, the 24-hour cable news service, in 1970, when his busy schedule kept him from seeing the six o'clock news...
Turner described the process of forming CNN as risky and uncertain...
Turner also commented on the future of CNN, as well as his own plans...
...retrospect, what the White House should have done is issue a statement right away so it didn't look like CNN was breaking the story...