Ned Burner is a main character and later a minor antagonist in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
He is voiced by Peter Bradbury.
History[]
Background[]
Ned Burner was a resident of Staunton Island, Liberty City and a reporter for the Liberty 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 from Leon McAffrey. [1] He also had information regarding corruption within Mayor 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 the LCPD in exchange for information on Vincenzo Cilli.
Events of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
Burner is known for getting a number of scoops and exclusives for LCN and gains information through e-mail contacts, including Maria Latore, and by hiring people to create news headlines for him to report on. In 1998 he impersonates a priest in a confession box at the cathedral in Bedford Point and tricks Leone Crime Family made man Toni Cipriani to cause chaos in the city. Burner then "hires" Cipriani to kill a federal witness, steal diamonds, create chaos on the city roads in a firetruck and then kill film stars DB-P, Black Lightman and Faith 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.
Death[]
Ned Burner later goes to Shoreside Vale where he witnesses the murder of Avery Carrington, committed by Cipriani and Donald Love, who later hires Toni to kill him. Cipriani later steals both Carrington and Burner's corpses, taking them to Love's private jet as an in-flight dinner for Love.
Mission Appearances[]
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
- 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)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- 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 and CNN founder Ted Turner.
- Ned Burner's character might have been inspired by Stephen Glass, a former journalist for The 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 film Shattered Glass.
