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Ned Burner is a main character and later a minorantagonist inGrand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
He is voiced byPeter Bradbury.
History[]
Background[]
Ned Burner was a resident ofStaunton Island,Liberty City and a reporter for theLiberty Tree newspaper. He also managed the Liberty Tree's e-mail account which he used to conduct his arrangements as a corrupt reporter, like taking bribes fromLeon McAffrey.[1] He also had information regarding corruption withinMayor Roger C. Hole's administration, but had been lying on his news reports to cover it up. His other schemes involve providing sex workers for theLCPD in exchange for information onVincenzo Cilli.
Events ofGrand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
Burner is known for getting a number of scoops and exclusives forLCN and gains information through e-mail contacts, includingMaria Latore, and by hiring people to create news headlines for him to report on. In1998 he impersonates a priest in a confession box at thecathedral inBedford Point and tricksLeone Crime Family made manToni Cipriani to cause chaos in the city. Burner then "hires" Cipriani tokill a federal witness,steal diamonds,create chaos on the city roads in a firetruck and thenkill film starsDB-P,Black Lightman andFaith W. for refusing to give an interview to the Liberty Tree newspaper, but subsequently reveals that due to Toni's crimes, he has gained significant publicity and scoop for the LCN as a reporter, much to the made man's chagrin.
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Ned Burner later goes toShoreside Vale where he witnesses the murder ofAvery Carrington, committed by Cipriani andDonald Love, who later hires Toni to kill him. Cipriani latersteals both Carrington and Burner's corpses, taking them to Love's private jet as an in-flight dinner for Love.
Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
- L.C. Confidential(Voice/Boss)
- The Passion of the Heist(Voice/Boss)
- Karmageddon(Voice/Boss)
- False Idols(Boss/Betrayal)
- Stop the Press(Killed)
- Morgue Party Resurrection(Corpse, in coffin)
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- The nickname "Father Ned" may be taken from the titular character of the TV show,Father Ted.
- Ned Burner's name may also be a reference to real-life media mogul andCNN founderTed Turner.
- Ned Burner's character might have been inspired byStephen Glass, a former journalist forThe New Republic until his firing in 1998. Like Burner, Glass was a corrupt reporter finding sensationalist fame by publishing fabricated stories. Unlike Burner, Glass did not engineer his stories to such an extreme manner, only doing so for one story. Glass's scandal would later be dramatized in the 2003 filmShattered Glass.
