last of the real journalist...Koppel to step down

[greenbriar]

NEW YORK - Ted Koppel will anchor his last edition of "Nightline" on Nov. 22, with the first post-Koppel edition of the ABC newscast airing Nov. 28, the network said Thursday.


Koppel, 65, has anchored the show since its official launch in March 1980. The show grew out of a series of special reports about the Iranian hostage crisis that began the previous November



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[KamaAina]

1. They should put his rug in the Smithsonian

alas, it looks like that's where the free press will end up, too... :(

[TrueAmerican]

2. Koppel? Real Journalist?

He's just another corporate media whore. Plused he blocked ABC signing David Letterman.

[In Truth We Trust]

4. "Real journalist" Ha ROTFLMAO He is a pos corporate shill!

[cynatnite]

3. Will be sad to see him go...

:(

[Mandate My Ass]

5. I used to really admire Ted. Until he totally sold out, that is

buh, bye, Ted! You should have done this while you still had some integrity intact. Maybe you Sandy O'Conner and Greenspan can have martinis and wax nostalgic about the good ole days.

[the_spectator]

6. This is so sad, and I wansn't expecting it -

What next? You're going to tell me that Jim Lehrer is going to retire from the Newshour? That would just about do it.

Those are about the last two of what used to be a much larger contingent: intelligent, skillfully competent TV journalists. They're not geniuses, they are real "mainstream" too - so a lot of DUers don't like them, (and a lot of right-wingers don't either.)

But you had to respect them. They do their jobs, they report the news, they are lovely interviewers, they KNOW enough about the world, and they can THINK ON THEIR FEET well enough -- so much of the younger generation can't! (And I'm only 37 here.)

[CatWoman]

7. on the anniversary of the JFK assassination, too

I was in the Army at the time Nightline was created.

I was in school, and all the Marines were in an uproar about the hostage situation.

I got really hooked on Nightline as a consequence.

[Hardrada]

8. On my birthday too.

I turned 19 11/22/63.

[undeterred]

9. He is an incredibly talented man and was a reall journalist

I don't know what happened to him the last few years, but he was definitely the kind of person we aren't seeing enter journalism any more.

[pretzel4gore]

10. donaldson, brocaw, rather and now koppel

they know the shit is either gonna hit the fan, or there aint gonna be no fan to hit! (excuse me english, this bush nonsense has made low standards de riguer and being fashionable is just good form, right)...these guys can't seriously pretend they are 'journalist/newsmen' yet still retire when literally the entire planet's well being is under the control of liars and thieves (bushinc) and any honest newsman could create history simply by telling a bit a truth when the cud chewers are watching...koppel and donalson and brocaw and rather must be jealous of peter jennings for getting out with his $50 million (jenning's isn't really dead; he's just resting, like the famous monty python parrot) and free of further bother....how the hell do 'newsmen' who lived and worked during the bush years, come clean? even if they wanted to, how do they do it? koppel figgers it's easier to just go play celebrity and do the speech thing and spend the multi millions $ he got to play the game on the right side....
now koppel can spend his time/energy appeasing god for 'nothing fails like success when you're working for the devil' and god's probably very angry at old ted....:)

[charlie]

11. Hersh and Arnett are still around

Still real journalists. Realer than Ted.