Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppelis an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel, a news analyst for NPR and BBC World News America and a contributor to Rock Center with Brian Williams. Koppel is currently a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth8 February 1940
CountryUnited States of America
He and I joked the last time I went up to visit just a few days ago that between the two of us we'd put in 83 years at ABC News. ... He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.
There is nothing precipitous about this, ... It's time to give a new bunch a crack at this.
Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,
You have lived up to every syllable of that commitment and I thank you.
What you're talking about is two very different operations. I don't want there to be hint of a suggestion that one operation is better than the other. But in the final analysis, this was a better fit.
I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.