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14 quotes by Ted Koppel

Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is a British American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and...
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling... →

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I have the necessary lack of tact.

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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult... →

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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even... →

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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to... →

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