for UnHerd , I wrote about how so much of Ted Turner's media and sports experimentation turned out the opposite of the way this legendary liberal oligarch would have wanted it to
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Ted Turner, who died on Wednesday at 87 after a long battle with Lewy body dementia, was one of the last well-meaning liberal media barons. But almost every reform he attempted produced the opposite of what he intended. The empire he assembled now sits, piece by piece, in the hands of the Right-wing…