Ted Turner dies at 87

The founder of CNN, the man who invented 24-hour news, passes during a week when that invention's consequences are fully visible in Iran war coverage and ceasefire theatre.

The obituaries process him as visionary, philanthropist, "colourful billionaire." What the processing doesn't touch: the question of whether the attention-economy architecture he pioneered is itself part of why we can no longer distinguish signal from noise in moments of geopolitical consequence.