Does Ted Turner, as they say nowadays, have issues with young people? Not long ago CNN’s aging frat-boy CEO was regretting that he had, in his words, had “five kids — boom, boom, boom — by the time I was 30,” adding, “If I was doing it over again I wouldn’t have done it, but I can’t shoot them now that they’re here.” The other week, he offered this cheery observation in a graduation speech at the University of Georgia: “Here’s the class of ’99, and y’all are just starting out. Wouldn’t it be terrible to have nuclear war in the next week or two and mess up y’all’s careers before they have gotten started?” Nice guy.
