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