Ted Koppel Pens First Piece as 'NY Times' Columnist--Comes Out Swinging

Editor and Publisher ^ | 01/29/06 | E&P Staff

[clintonh8r]

I've been lost since Ted hasn't been around to tell me what's important.....

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I don't remember being aware of media bias until Reagan got elected while I was in grad school. I was shocked. Pleased, but shocked, as the media verdict was there was no way he could be elected. Since then the bias has seemed so obvious. Starting to listen to Rush Limbaugh--just hearing someone speak the truth--was another eye-opening event.

[Tall_Texan]

"And now, ABC World News Tonight, sponsored by Metamucil and Depends..."

[Zeppo]

though not so insensible as to be unmoved by the blandishments of sponsors

Leave it to Ted to use a ten-dollar word such as "blandishments" when a more common one would have been more appropriate. Guess that Ted needs to prove to all of the snobs and elitists in the Times Select audience that he is one of them...

[Buffettfan]

[[Ted Koppel declares, "I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress."]]

What this Alfred E Neuman look alike is saying is that he is pi$$ed because the oldstream media has finally been exposed as the democratic house organ that they have been for the last 50 years and that they are being called on the carpet for it. I will never forget how this fruitcake sucked up to a communist vietnamese farmer and attacked John O'Neil during the Swiftvet interview. I wanted to puke.

Semper Fi'
Jarhead

[lOKKI]

I first became aware of media bias during the Vietnam war - thanks to a shortwave radio my dad gave me.

First I'd listen to Voice of America for their war reports -
100 Vietcong killed; 5 Americans killed; 7 American wounded.

Then I'd listen to Radio Moscow or Radio Hanoi -
300 Americans killed, 1 Vietcong scratched a finger.

Finally, I'd listen to the BBC, who would generally fall somewhere in between the other two.


Ever since then, I've done my best to listen and read multiple opposing viewpoint sources and tried to triangulate between then to guess the truth.

[Starboard]

"I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress."

That's the only thing he got right. He and his elitist pals in the media are the reason why the industry is in decline.

[Starboard]

the oldstream media has finally been exposed as the democratic house organ

Yep, its the echo chamber for the Dems.

[RJL]

Ted Koppel Pens First Piece as 'NY Times' Columnist--Comes Out Swinging

The short version: Ted misses the old monopoly the hard left had on journalism.

[Starboard]

You nailed it.

[bray]

An extinct Dinosaur telling Mammels how to survive!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Starboard]

The short version: Ted misses the old monopoly the hard left had on journalism.

To paraphrase one of Ted's former colleagues, "that's the way it was".

[Huevos Rancheros]

"I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress."

What does Ted Toupee call going to Vietnam to bolster Kerry's claims and interviewing commies for his story?

[Clay Moore]

"I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress."

Yeah Ted, because of you and your ilk! One of the big things that wiped out communism was when the common folk were able to get news about what was really going on instead of the fiction the news-readers told them. Thank Algore for inventing the Internet and thus removing your fecal stain from the airways.

[Arrowhead1952]

"Indeed, in television news these days, the programs are being shaped to attract BRAINWASH, most particularly, 18-to-34-year-old viewers. They, in turn, are presumed to be partly brain-dead — though not so insensible as to be unmoved by the blandishments of sponsors.

How stupid does Ted Koppel think Americans are and what they think about his P&M sessions?

[johnny7]

Ted goes ABC to PBS and does editorial for NYTimes.

Simplified... Ted goes DNC to DNC and does editorial for DNC.

[Starboard]

Ted goes ABC to PBS and does editorial for NYTimes.

Ah yes, the backbone of the liberal media. Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word....about liberals.

[OESY]

The logical flaw in Koppel's argument is that the Old Media would not be in a precipitous decline if they gave their audience what it wants.

Instead, Old Media reporters and pundits like Koppel play to their "audience" of company co-workers, pretending to be great propagandists of the past.

Their mission is never perceived to be to report the news but rather to craft a phrase, taint an opponent or omit a fact that will manipulate the public into embracing their left-wing world, company profits be damned.

[RJL]

The logical flaw in Koppel's argument is that the Old Media would not be in a precipitous decline if they gave their audience what it wants.

Excellent point.

[Amelia]

And journalists go to importance school so they can know more about what's important than the rest of us, right?

In a national sense, how important do you think the murdered-young-white-female (Natalee Hollaway, Lacie Peterson, etc.) stories Fox covers interminably are?