"New Anchor's Record of Liberal Advocacy:..." [ ABC's Ted Koppel signs off after 25 years]

MRC ^ | Monday November 21, 2005 | BrentBaker RichNoyes

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Is is Moran or Moron?

[fight_truth_decay]

More of the Same.............

Rather was honored with a lifetime achievement award. ABC's Ted Koppel praised Rather as "a man of honesty and integrity and decency."

Referring to Rather's "memogate," Koppel sarcastically suggested: "I would simply urge your most vociferous critics to take a page from the White House's own playbook. When one of their own a makes a mistake, they stress the importance of looking to the future and of not playing the blame game."

MSNBC President Rick Kaplan, a former executive at ABC and CNN, asserted that "Dan was meticulously careful to be fair and balanced and accurate" during his career. Kaplan then lashed out: "When did we allow those with questionable agendas to take the lead and convince people of something quite the opposite? It's shameful." Kaplan went so far to declare that Rather's "legacy" is "the gold standard journalists (code words for "yellow journalism"?)today have struggled to live up to."

[fight_truth_decay]

ABC is similarly trying to reinvent "Nightline," responding to Ted Koppel's imminent departure with a three-anchor lineup and an abandonment of the single-story format that some programmers now regard as quaint in a channel-surfing universe. Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and Martin Bashir may be able to jump-start the franchise, but Disney executives were perfectly willing to junk it three years ago in favor of David Letterman. And ABC has yet to settle on a successor to the late Peter Jennings, in part because of concern about pulling Charlie Gibson off the more lucrative "Good Morning America."

Except for an uptick during Hurricane Katrina, the media's stock seems to be in a gradual decline -- journalistically, financially and psychologically. That is unlikely to change as long as journalists keep behaving in ways that alienate their audiences.

washingtonpost.com
Singing the News Blues
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 7, 2005

[Cobra64]

After he did that once I would have said--next question! I can't believe they let these buzzards get away with questions like this!

I agree. Rummy would ripped Mr. "Moron" a new one.

[nopardons]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh...what an idiot this guy is!

[Republican Wildcat]

New boss same as the old boss. Still no need to watch.

[Brimack34]

Do these idiots on the MSM need to be hit with a 2 by 4. They do not get it.