[libertylover]

I don’t remember the details of why, but I remember Ted Koppel as a despicable piece of s***.

[Calvin Locke]

I remember watching a Koppel piece in the 1980s. PA coal country where a burning underground coal mine made a little town unsafe.

The producer got a couple whose house was being undermined by the fire to stand close to a smoking hole in the ground.

Kopel finishes the interview by telling the couple to get away from the smoke because it's not safe.

The couple was re-interviewed complaining that Kopel made them look like idiots for standing near the smoke, when that's what the producer wanted them to do.

[catnipman]

“I don’t remember the details of why, but I remember Ted Koppel as a despicable piece of s***.”

you remember correctly. as i recall koppel produced a whole series of defeatism reports when he was embedded as a “reporter” in the first iraq war. my impression was that the SOB was trying to emulate walter cronkite during the vietnam war.