Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ted Turner, who founded the Cable News Network in 1980, said that if he got his wish to run CNN again, he would increase coverage of countries including China.

“There’d be less fluffy news and more international news,” Turner, 70, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Less talk, more news.”

Turner quit the media business three years ago when he left the board of New York-based Time Warner Inc. Time Warner bought his cable company, which included CNN, in 1996, and Turner lost $7 billion when the stock collapsed in the wake of the 2001 merger with AOL.

Turner also said he sent News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch a note the other day to say he was “doing a good job with the Wall Street Journal.”

Murdoch was gratified for the letter and will be replying to Turner, Teri Everett, a spokeswoman for News Corp., said in an e-mail.

To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah Rabil in New York at srabil@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: October 16, 2009 08:47 EDT