Ted Turner
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| Born | Robert Edward Turner III November 19, 1938 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 2026 |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Children | 5 |
| Spouse | Julia Gale Nye |
| Interests | Overpopulation |
US "liberal" media mogul and zealous financier of projects designed to lower the world's population. | |
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III was an American media mogul who founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. He was a major proponent of population reducatuin.
Overpopulation
Turner has long been known as a champion of population control. In 1996, he put $125 million into a foundation to support environmental and population control efforts in the U.S. and abroad. The endowment spends about $6 million a year on projects designed to lower the world's population from the present six billion people to two billion or less.[1]
The billionaire, who has 5 children himself, wants "fertility rights" to be sold, so that poor people "could profit from their decision not to reproduce".[2]
Windswept House
According to the Traditional Roman Catholic Network, Turner is mentioned as Brad Gerstein-Snell in Malachi Martins 1996 book: Windswept House: A Vatican Novel.