Credit: Reuters/Allison Joyce
Ted Turner, founder of CNN, speaks on a panel after the screening of ''Cold War'', a documentary chronicling the events that fuelled the war between the United States and the Soviet Union, at the Paley Center for Media in New York April 29, 2012.
After a brief stay in the San Carlos clinic in the lakeside city of Bariloche, the 75-year-old founder of cable TV network CNN was flown to Buenos Aires for surgery, according to several Argentine newspapers.
Turner spokesman Phillip Evans issued a statement saying his boss was admitted to a hospital for observation while traveling in South America.
'Given it is our policy not to comment on his personal health, no further details will be provided,' Evans said.
Workers at the San Carlos clinic confirmed that Turner was there in the early morning, and left on foot. Media said he took a private jet to Buenos Aires.
Daily newspaper Clarin said Turner was to be operated on at the Argentine Institute for Diagnosis and Treatment in the upscale neighborhood of Barrio Norte.
(Reporting by Jorge Otaola and Hernan Nessi; Additional reporting by David Beasley in Atlanta; Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by James Dalgleish and Jonathan Oatis)
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