Fox News Sunday Plans Response to Nightline 'Stunt'

NewsMax.com ^ | 5/01/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

"Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace announced Friday that he's planning to respond to ABC "Nightline" host Ted Koppel's decision to air photos and names of GI's Killed in Iraq, calling Koppel's broadcast "a stunt."

"I think it is such a stunt," Wallace told WRKO-Boston radio host Howie Carr.

"I will just say one thing to all of your listeners," he added. "Watch 'Fox News Sunday' this Sunday because we are going to have our response to Koppel and 'Nightline.'"

Wallace refused to be more specific about his plans for Sunday's show, but told Carr his response would be "a corrective."

"It's not a stunt, it's a corrective. It's what Fox News was invented to be, which is, we're different than the other guys and we're going to give you the other side of the story."

Pressed by Carr, Wallace elaborated just a bit. "We have an announcement we're going to make about Mr. Koppel and 'Nightline' and their show - and our response to it."

Asked if he was "declaring war on Ted Koppel on Sunday morning," Wallace told Carr, "You'll see. Some people may think it's that. . . It's going to make some news."

[GWB00]

Claim that Baghdad has list of oil-for-food cash bribes

Could it Be? Could it Be? Oh, could it be????????

[twntaipan]

Yes it was. It was the first time I had seen the complete list, and I found someone with the same family name. It is not all that common, so it was quite sobering to see this person's name on the list.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[FreeTheHostages]

"mmmmm...news reporters make some news..."

LOL. My thoughts exactly. I like Fox News, but why dignify Koppel with a defense? The media has of course given Koppel way too much exposure anyway.

He's so biased. He covered all the anti-war protests in DC and gave very short shrift to the supprot the troops rallies. Everyone in DC knows that. That's why his claim to be doing something patriotic here is silly. He's one-sided. He can only see patriotism in dissent: he can't see it in supporting the troops. This is what people mean when they say the media hates America.

[MamaLucci]

My most fervert hope is that the Bush administration has the goods on the UN,
and a whole lot of Saddam-bribed socialists, throughout the global village.

[Common Tator]

Re: comments by Senator McCain on the Ted Koppel show.

Did it ever occur to anyone that Senator McCain blames the American People for his being tortured by the North Vietnamese, and has been getting even by torturing us ever since.

[Pontiac]

Newman is better looking and has more intelligent opinions.

[GWB00]

Fox is not your father's news channel

[Criminal Number 18F]

Wasn't it Koppel who "proved" that GM pickup trucks were deathtraps by "crash-testing" one in which they had wired explosives into the gas tank? It was his network, anyway.

The producer involved in that particular misdeed was Rick Kaplan, who later brought his agenda to CNN with the Tailwind fabrication.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Right Wing Puppy]

I guess the term "like father like son" doesn't apply here!

[netmilsmom]

I have to ask, did everyone here KNOW who BKO was at the time?
I had seen her so many times on Hannity & C..... , but did the FReepers know her as who she was?

[cake_crumb]

"Claim that Baghdad has list of oil-for-food cash bribes"

Yep. Actually, this isn't the first time I heard it. Reporters from al Jazeera, the BBC and "American stations" were said to have been on the list. It's actually not a seperate one...it's from the original list which was partially published last Jnauary.

Saddam didn't use just oil vouchers: he used cars and houses to bribe reporters to spread his propaganda that US sanctions were killing a gazillion Iraqi children a year, Saddam was really a nice guy who's misunderstood, etc. Naturally, the public bought it over time. When you tell the same lies every day for years, the lies take on the patina of truth. Some reporters told those lies knowingly and for pay. I want to know their names.

Ever since, every time I hear some "objective" talking head spewing absolutely vile BS, I wonder if they were on the list.

[MamaLucci]

Saddam didn't use just oil vouchers: he used cars and houses to bribe reporters to spread his propaganda that US sanctions were killing a gazillion Iraqi children a year,...

Fascinating......and the name "Dan Rather" comes immediately to mind.
FYI, I posted the NZ Herald article as a separate thread.

[Spunky]

"I have to ask, did everyone here KNOW who BKO was at the time?"

Maybe not everyone, but a lot of Freepers did know that BKO was Barbara Olsen.

[InterceptPoint]

geeze, don't tell me the media's the message!?

You've been around awhile if you remember that line. I'll bet not one Freeper in 20 has any idea what you mean.

[The Raven]

In the battle of good and evil......the "useful idiots" don't even realize they are on the wrong side.

[St.Chuck]

Maybe Fox is planning to show the pictures and read the names of the 14,000 Iraqi's estimated to have been killed. That would really out-Koppel Koppel.

[RWR8189]

So when is he going to do this?