Perhaps Mr. Koppel wrote this piece as the closing homework assignment at a refresher course from the Dan Rather School of Objective and Truthful Journalism. If so, I’ll bet he got a good final grade.
They are going to try to represent CNN as the centrist reasonable independent voice.
I thought that old hack was long dead.
LOL - good one, Bernard.
Ted’s utopia.
“Much of the American public used to gather before the electronic hearth every evening, separate but together, while Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith offered relatively unbiased accounts of information that their respective news organizations believed the public needed to know. The ritual permitted, and perhaps encouraged, shared perceptions and even the possibility of compromise among those who disagreed.”
Up yours Ted , The monster has been killed.