Showing posts with label Timidly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timidly. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Whoops!

About last week:
Timidly but proudly, I sent my first effort at blogging into the world. Ten minutes later, I realized I had it all wrong. I had said Reese Schonfeld had founded CNN. Reese Schonfeld did not found CNN, he found Ted Turner, and together they founded CNN. The Reese part was unfounded some time later. You might say the men parted as friends, but then again, you might be hallucinating.
There was a gathering one night -- in New York, I think--whern Ted Turner, on the podium, was talking about people who had helped shape his network, and someone in the audience called out, "What about Reese Schonfeld?"
"Ah, yes, Reese," Mr. Turner is reported to have said. And then, with a beatific smile, added, "I shouldn't have fired him, I should have killed him."
Thayt's the way it goes sometime.