ted turner: we are not looking for enough ahead.or instance, we are real good with two or three years ahead, but we are not very good with 100 years ahead. we are having such a huge effect, and we're not just quite, a generation or two behind the curve on our progress to do with these things. and basically, like a child with matches, we might set ourselves on fire, which, in fact we are setting ourselves on fire. we are destroying the natural world -- overfishing the oceans, over-farming the lands, and just one thing after another. and then, the natural world on which we depend for our survival is collapsing all around us. if we do not change our ways immediately, our children and grandchildren are not going to have much of a future. terre: preservinthat future may well depend on political leaders in the united ates and around the world taking sustained action. but what will it take to get them to act? warren buffet: if you go out and try to talk about problems that may manifest themselves 10 or 20 or 30 years from now, it really do

john: you cite businessman like sam walton, ted turner, boy, i don't think of them as heroes. walton started walmart, gets filthy rich. >> he absolutely started this business in order to make money. but what he did was bring necessary stuff to working class people at lower prices than they could get anywhere else, and that is a -- he is a much greater benefact offer humanity than barack obama or elizabeth warren or any of these others. [ applause ] >> and then there's a whole group of people, ted turner who created cnn. brian land who created c-span. jeff bezos at amazon, jimmy whales at wikipedia. larry page and sergei bren at google. they brought knowledge to the world, transparency, we get to find out more or less what politicians are up to because of this. john: but some of this did it to make money. >> some didn't, jimmy whales created a charity. he may wish he didn't do that. sure they do it to make money, by the invisible hand as adam smith put. if you set out to make money, the only way to do it is to provide people with something they want. >> one of the things that's

long time the boss sam wilson at the new york tribune and he whispered at the the rupert murdoch/ted turner, whatever, at this time. probably the most famous man in america other than abraham lincoln. but he also is running an enterprise at newspapers that were losing money. they relay not a lot of money. early in the war, albeit from the book, he really raised a ruckus over creative writing an expense account of a colleague named charlie paige, another one of these carrots yours. when greeley ault were some unusual at and an indignant page for relate that he got the news he paid for. quote, he says, early news is expensive news, mr. greeley. if i have watermelons and whiskey ready when officers come along, i get the news that asking questions. [laughter] that to me -- i'm going to use the watermelons and whiskey line the next time i follow up a disputed expense report. the third passage, this is what editors fall over. this is my way of saying the world couldn't exist and still can't exist without editors. i don't care what's going on in our business, we need them. this is about another ch

. >> the reaction to murdoch's idea for a fourth network was like ted turner starting cnn. no question we have an inferior lineup of stations. we have to work hard to get the message across to get the shows sampled. >> they had an idea in order to succeed we have to differentiate ourselves and do things they would not do. for shows like 21 jump street. >> i don't know rivers in terms of late night. >> we're have been banned in boston which i think is wonderful. pick a finger. >> and the tracy you'llman show. >> it was a sketch show and they need something to go between the sketches. you were looking for something different. >> they better not steal the candy bars. >> the simpsons would never have come along had it not been for the tracy you'llman show. >> crime hurts the criminal. >> that's not true, mom. i got a free ride home, didn't i? >> fox was thrilled that it was different. they said sure, be experimental and do whatever you want. we are happy to have a show on the air. >> married with children was the first big hit that said if all the rest of television is going th