Ted Turner reflects on a lifetime in the limelight

Ted Turner
Ted Turner in 2006.
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As 2008 winds to a close, Midday presents some of the year's most provocative speeches.

Legendary entrepreneur Ted Turner is out with a new memoir, "Call me Ted." He opined on his personal story, the state of journalism, and the state of his pocketbook in a November appearance at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

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