Ted Turner died Wednesday at his home near Tallahassee at the age of eighty-seven, after a long battle with Lewy body dementia. The headlines settled on the obvious: founder of CNN. They are not wrong, but that’s only part of the story.
Turner was a modern Howard Hughes, an operator and builder and philanthropist who worked at industrial scale across more industries than anyone could name from memory. Cable television. Professional sports. The America’s Cup. Hollywood film preservation. The largest private bison herd in the world. A billion dollars to the United Nations announced over dinner. Hughes died in 1976. Turner died in 2026. Fifty years and a month. Turner came from the same American mold as Hughes, something we need more of in this country.
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