(09-14-2016 02:53 PM)Latilleon Wrote: (09-14-2016 02:50 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote: (09-14-2016 12:43 PM)NigelTufnel Wrote: (09-13-2016 05:26 AM)Latilleon Wrote: (09-13-2016 02:52 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote: Has everything to do with it. Ted Turner owned WCW and until he tied up with Hanoi Jane was somewhat moderate to conservative. Would have never allowed his company to be used for Communist propaganda without her influence.
You have no information. You just assume it is so. Alrighty then.
The article doesn't even mention Ted Turner as any sort of decision maker in this process.
It mentions his Company and his promoter. Does not have to mention him by name.
Bischoff had complete control of WCW (He wasn't a "promoter," he was the chief executive; there's a difference) until Time Warner bought Turner.
He still answered to Turner and later Time Warner.
From the interview:
FTW: What was it that made you decide you wanted to go to North Korea?
Ric Flair: Well, initially it was going to be
Ted Turner, Jimmy Carter, me and Muhammad Ali — in the end it just ended up being myself and Muhammad Ali, and some other guys that worked on the undercard (the Steiner brothers, the Road Warriors, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Scott Norton to name a few). I just thought, number one, it’d be cool to travel with Muhammad Ali. Number two, it was a challenge, and I just thought it would be an experience to remember later in life..
So Turner was a part of the deal and had to approve the deal.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/...d-lib.html
“He started becoming more and more environmentalist and then Jane helped move things over as well," Turner told Malzberg. “Then when you start hanging around and everybody you’re hanging around with is liberal, then you tend to move more liberal.’’
Teddy Turner, a 49-year-old high school teacher, said he – not his father – has always been consistent in his political orientation.
“I’m not a liberal,” he said. “People say how did you separate from your dad? I didn’t separate from my dad. My dad separated from me.”