TOUGH TED: The irrepressible Ted Turner, founder...

TOUGH TED: The irrepressible Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, lived up to his reputation during an exchange on the show’s keynote panel. . . When moderator John McLaughlin defended General Electric--the owner of NBC--by quoting GE’s slogan, “We Bring Good Things to Life,” Captain Outrageous then ticked off some of those “good things”: nuclear weapons, chemical pollution in New York’s Hudson River and defective parts for jet aircraft.