A biography of entrepreneur Ted Turner, who, after a number of diverse achievements, pioneered the world's first twenty-four hour, nonstop news station and changed the history of television.
While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier.
When one of the actresses is fired from a television show for bad behavior, she retaliates by making public an underground blog about the program, which precipitates a boycott of the show.
Naive Indiana transplant Corliss Meyers moves in with her uncle and gets a job as an intern working on a new Hollywood television show, while an anonymous insider is blogging about the scandalous activities swirling around the set.