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Edited on Fri Sep-10-04 12:05 PM by Viking12
Here's the section mentioned in earleier posts:
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) I think you're arguing about the difference between fact and truth. Which is the great problem with journalism. Let me explain.
JON STEWART: Fact and truth?
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) Fact and truth.
JON STEWART: Are you going to tell me the Holocaust didn't happen?
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) For the sake of -argument, let's say President Bush comes out there Thursday night and out of the blue talks about that well-known drug dealer and pedophile, Ted Koppel. And my colleagues then ...
JON STEWART: Are you getting this?
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) And my colleagues then the next morning say the President of the United States last night, in a surprising diversion from the rest of his speech, accused ABC host Ted Koppel of being a pedophile and a drug dealer. Are they factually correct in reporting that the President of the United States said that? Is it news that he said that? Sure, it is. Is it the truth? No. The truth may not emerge until ...
JON STEWART: Or is it?
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JON STEWART: But they're explaining the vulnerability in the system. What I'm saying is ...
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) That's exactly right.
JON STEWART: This vulnerability in the system needs to be for the media, I think, to do an effective job, that vulnerability needs to be corrected. The media is getting creamed, and they need to take a more active role in safeguarding, I think, the public trust.
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