[Izzy Dunne]

But his view is that journalists "should be telling their viewers what is important, not the other way around. "

And journalists go to importance school so they can know more about what's important than the rest of us, right?

[oldenuff2no]

This is exactly what is wrong with these overpaid socialists. We don't want them making news or targeting different news stories at us. We want them just reporting the actual true facts of the news and letting us make up our own minds as to the correct conclusions.
they want to control us with information. I do not have the need to be controlled. The off button on my remote has been working a lot lately.

[sauropod]

And journalists go to importance school so they can know more about what's important than the rest of us, right?

Bingo! Koppel has always come across that way to me.

[johnny7]

Ted goes ABC to PBS and does editorial for NYTimes.

Simplified... Ted goes DNC to DNC and does editorial for DNC.

[Amelia]

And journalists go to importance school so they can know more about what's important than the rest of us, right?

In a national sense, how important do you think the murdered-young-white-female (Natalee Hollaway, Lacie Peterson, etc.) stories Fox covers interminably are?

[kcvl]

But his view is that journalists "should be telling their viewers what is important, not the other way around. "

Shows us how much he knows about real news audiences. I believe they have tried this for 30 years or more. It's not as if we can't find out the truth about what is important to us without them. He and his "friends" are just po'd because they can't CONTROL what THEY THINK IS IMPORTANT TO VIEWERS.

[hinckley buzzard]

Koppel is really a case study in ignorance. Propelled into the public eye by the accident of covering "America Held Hostage," he has ridden his late night hobby horse to fame and fortune while achieving nothing of his own in almost thirty years.

Time and time again, for example, he sat with Soviet mouthpieces, uncritically sucking down their propagandist spew as if it were an accurate representation of a valid point of view. He appeared to be oblivious to the transparent spin going on in front of him.

The only other venue he ever chaired was a risibly self-serving circle-jerk in which he and several of his "journalist" peers preened and posed as if examining themselves, while in the end always deciding that in fact they were objective, important, nay indispensible tutors to the education of the lumpen-viewership to whom they vouchsafed their services.

Now, even though he has been left in the dust by the very populace he insults, he still believes it is up to him and his lamebrain colleagues.

In recognition of these and other amazing performances, I nominate Ted Koppel for a special Lifetime Achievement, Flaming Anus Award, media category.