{"id":11954,"date":"2022-02-18T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11954"},"modified":"2022-03-05T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T01:23:29","slug":"the-mouth-of-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/02\/18\/the-mouth-of-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mouth Of The South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Optionist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q&A: Ted Turner Biographer Porter Bibb<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Mouth of the South: Turner at the official CNN launch event in Atlanta on June 1, 1980. (Rick Diamond\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All the drama around CNN and Jeff Zucker got me thinking about Ted Turner. I called up Porter Bibb, who wrote the best-selling 1993 biography of CNN founder Ted Turner,\u00a0Ted Turner: It Ain’t As Easy as It Looks<\/em>. Bibb told me about how he came to be Turner\u2019s biographer, and, most interestingly, Turner\u2019s unsparing, unfavorable thoughts about CNN under\u00a0recently-ousted Jeff Zucker<\/a>, and John Malone\u2019s relationship to Turner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner\u2019s life \u2014 his father\u2019s suicide, winning the America\u2019s Cup, turning a rinky-dink Atlanta station at the end of the dial into a media powerhouse, his marriage to Jane Fonda \u2014 is the raw material for a great TV series. In the age of streaming, Bibb thinks Turner\u2019s full life is better suited for a multi-part limited series, though he compares the possibilities not unfairly to Scorsese\u2019s Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator<\/em>. (Interested? Ping me and I\u2019ll put you in touch with Bibb, who controls the rights<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book was optioned years ago to a couple of Turner executives, but rights eventually reverted to Bibb. A few others have kicked the tires, including Oliver Stone. But as Bibb explains, he\u2019s feeling a new eagerness to see something come to screen both because of the timeliness of the story and Turner\u2019s declining health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibb was\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s first publisher where he recruited high school buddy Hunter Thompson to write for Jann Wenner\u2019s publication; now he\u2019s an investment banker (currently at Mediatech Capital Partners) specializing in media deals for 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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