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People would pay money to work at CNN.

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

We struck an unusual deal. I'll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand at CNN - 'Black in America' - that I now own. I can take that brand and extend it in any way I want.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.