SIGHTINGS



Ted Turner:
'I Am A Socialist At Heart'
http://drudgereport.com/matt2.htm
9-30-99
 
 
 
The nation's leading private land owner and top media power player declared on Wednesday that he is really a socialist!
 
CABLE NEWS NETWORK founder Ted Turner, one of the world's richest men, told a gathering in Shanghai that he is "a socialist at heart" who is concerned that "Internet guys have gotten so rich so fast."
 
Addressing TIME WARNER's Global Forum, Turner blasted ORACLE CORP's chairman Larry Ellison for his yachts.
 
"I'd rather use money for the benefit of mankind rather than spend it selfishly," Turner, owner of yachts, told the gathering of over 500 Chinese and international entrepreneurs.
 
At a gala opening on Monday night, Gerald Levin, TIME WARNER chairman, introduced Chinese President Jiang Zemin, describing him as "my good friend."
 
Levin ignored the fact that Chinese authorities blocked newsstand sales of a special China edition of TIME magazine this week because it included essays by the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, and by political exiles Wei Jingsheng and Fang Lizhi.





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