‘News will be the star’: Ted Turner’s extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won. Turner faced an extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN in 1980. Before the network became an institution, a shorthand for 24/7 breaking news around the world, it was a dare that many