Jane Fonda
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He is imposing limits on the First Amendment.
He's saying you have to do this, you can't hire this, you can't say these things.
in our major cultural and media institutions.
We have to stop that.
There have been a lot of mergers that were, including just towards the end of my marriage to Ted Turner, there was so much pressure on him to merge with AOL and Time Warner and
And then all those other mergers that happened after that.
You know, it's interesting because I said to Ted, why?
You know, you have such a successful business.
He said, because I'm paraphrasing.
He said, if I don't become part of a bigger institution, I'm going to get eaten.
You know, this is capitalism.
You have to keep getting bigger.
And it turned out very badly for Zasloff and Warner Brothers.
So, you know, I am not a business person.
Yeah.
There were a lot of people saying to do, you know, John Malone and a lot of really smart people.
Michael Milken were telling him to do this.
And Ted didn't feel good about it.
It was the wrong deal.
Yeah.