36th ANNUAL ® NEWS &DOCUMENTARY <strong>EMMY</strong> <strong>AWARDS</strong> of the worst corporate mergers ever between Time Warner/AOL, he’s got the guts to tell me he’ll never get over it. And that he made a huge mistake. “I don’t have to get over it. I live with it” he said. “You know, at least I haven’t had a serious bout of cancer. You’ve got to be able to take some disappointment in life, too. You just have to roll with the punches when adversity hits you”. How interesting then, to discover that Ted Turner’s early inspiration came from the Classics. He loves their grandiose vision, and can still quote them extensively. He recited “On Honor” from Shakespeare’s Richard II, from memory for me: “Oh, my honor is my life, we live in one. Take honor from me and my life is done. Then pray, my liege, my honor, let me try, for that I live and for that will I die.” And he told me: “I’ve lived with that. There’s not one blemish on my honor in my entire 76-year career, not once.” Now tell me, who has a boss who talks like that? Ted Turner has lived an honorable life. I count myself among those fortunate few who have worked for a great and admirable leader, and to have been inspired to do my part to help carry out his unique vision for our world. Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of “Amanpour,” a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International. The World, Live and Unfiltered by Wolf Blitzer In December 2010, I found myself reporting in arguably the most isolated city on earth — Pyongyang, North Korea. The repressive regime that rules that country has made it official policy to shield the North Korean people from real news and information. Reporters rarely get access inside. And television sets there are locked on state broadcasters selling a steady diet of propaganda. So when I finally returned to my modest room in a government guest house and turned on the TV set, I expected to see more of the same. Instead, I was thrilled to be greeted by James Earl Jones’s iconic voice intoning that this was CNN. That moment is just one of many examples of the brilliance and foresight of Ted Turner. He wanted our signal to be available everywhere, because he knew to have real international impact, CNN also had to have real international reach. Somehow Ted knew — before everyone else — that if his network covered every corner of the world, fairly and accurately, even the most repressive regimes would find a way to watch. And they do. CONGRATULATIONS TED TURNER from MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Bozeman, Montana Montana State University’s film school is creating leaders in TV and film with hands-on learning in a remarkable setting. MSU has developed: The first masters degree of its kind in Science and Natural History Filmmaking Oscar and Emmy award-winning alumni and students The filmmakers behind Unbranded, a 2015 audience award-winning documentary www.montana.edu 10 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
CONGRATULATIONS TED TURNER ® LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT <strong>EMMY</strong> AWARD FOR NEWS & DOCUMENTARY We at Cox Enterprises celebrate and salute your leadership, your vision and your many contributions to television and the cable industry.
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