Media Maverick Ted Turner, Pioneer of Cable News, Passes Away at 87

Leaving behind a massive, albeit messy legacy

Ted Turner’s accomplishments are many, but he is perhaps best known as the flame throwing do-gooder who created cable news in the hopes that it would allow him a chance, quite literally, to save the world.

“Part of the reason America had so many problems, he believed, was because his fellow Americans were so ill-informed,” former CNN journalist Lisa Napo…