Ted Koppel, who is not known to be a neutral journalist and is a part of the old guard, liberal legacy establishment media, criticized Fox News host Sean Hannity over how he runs his TV program. Specifically, Koppel blamed the likes of Hannity for increasing polarization among the American people by prioritizing ideology and opinion […]
In an interview with the Associated Press’s David Bauder, longtime ABC Nightline anchor Ted Koppel complained about how NBC has handled the scheduling of Rock Center with Brian Williams. Koppel, who contributes four to five stories a year to Rock Center, thinks host Brian Williams deserves better than to see his show moved around like […]
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 […]
Former ABC Nightline anchor Ted Koppel appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sourrces and took aim at at what he perceives as the decline of serious journalism on cable news. http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/27/rs.koppel.journalism.cnn Kurtz: Let me ask you about a Washington Post opinion piece that you wrote awhile back that caused a bit of a stir. You said you […]