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
I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.
The challenge over the years, and the challenge now, is to keep changing the program without altering it,
Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,
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.
Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?