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Koppel Chides Nightline for Being More Interested in Entertainment Than News
Ted Koppel, who anchored ABC’s Nightline program for 25 years, rarely watches the program now because he says it has become more focused on entertainment than information and news.
Koppel: It’s no secret they have become hugely successful, precisely because they are doing what I really didn’t want ‘Nightline’ to do.
Koppel lamented that most of the overseas bureaus that existed when he was a young foreign correspondent have been shut down and he said that wasn’t healthy. He thought that if anything, we need more information on what is going on in the rest of the world than we did 40 years ago.
Where has Koppel been lately? Thanks to the Internet we now have far more information than we did even five years ago and in some cases we get too much information. As to Koppel’s point of entertainment having overtaken news and information, he is probably right as there is more of a tendency towards tabloid journalism than the type or journalism Koppel prefers.
Even Koppel has to admit, though, that foreign news bureaus are not as vital to gathering news as they were 40 years ago. Technology has made them largely obsolete and they tend to be a huge drag on profits which have been sliding for years at the networks, making foreign bureaus an easy target for elimination.
Koppel represents a breed of journalists that is dying out and the likes of which we may never see again. I think that’s what bothers Koppel more than anything else.
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Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
2 Comments for Koppel Chides Nightline for Being More Interested in Entertainment Than News
Exactly, Mr. Koppel, which is why I am boycotting watching Nightline after tonight’s episode. Did an fluff piece on the upcoming movie “Hunger Games” which deteriorated into an immature, sexist, derogatory slant on eating Beaver meat. And it got worse with each slight & innuendo, until Terry Moran brought it home with a lascivious remark about plunging into that beaver. Glint in his eye; smirking all the while. Crude, crass, not news. This is tabloid fodder catering to the lowest denominator. ABC should really be ashamed of themselves. Filed my complaint there, too. Doesn’t matter: they lost another customer. Mr. Koppel, where art thou?
I TUNED IN LAST WEEK BECAUSE I WAS SURE THEY WOULD HAVE A SHOW ABOUT THE STOCK MKT. DROPPING.HA HA THEY NEVER MENTIONED IT. IT WAS THE BIG STORY OF THE DAY.THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS FALLING APART & THEY NEVER MENTION IT? WHY IS IT THAT NO ONE EVER MENTIONS THE FACT THAT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS IN THE SHAPE IT IS IN BECAUSE OF COMPANYS MOVING AWAY & OUTSOURCING THE JOBS? WHY DON’T THEY FACE THE FACT THAT FREE TRADE/GLOBALISM DOES NOT WORK.AMERICA FIRST. PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO TO POLITICAL EVENTS WITH SIGNS BEGGING FOR A JOB.PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE LAUGHING AT THE USA’S FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.THEY DON’T SHOW THAT ON TV EATHER. FACE THE FACT THE LEADERS HAVE FAILED US. GET RID OF FREE TRADE & PUT THE THE TAXPAYERS FIRST.OBAMA IS ALL ABOUT JOBS NOW THAT HE IS WORRIED ABOUT REELECTION.THE JOBS HE IS PROPOSING ARE LIKE SPITTING IN THE OCEAN.AMERICA NEEDS TO GET BACK TO MANUFACTURING.PEOPLE WHO DRIVE FOREIGN CARS DON’T HELP EATHER.I GET CRAZY WHEN PEOPLE COMPLAIN THEN GO GET IN THEIR JAPANESE CAR. GET A CLUE. THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN A M CARS. I KNOW SOMEONE WHO WORKED AT A JAPAN CAR DEALER [HAPPILY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS] WHO SAID HE WAS RELPACING TRANSMISSIONS ON CARS WITH 3000 MILES. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR A CHEAP CAR.