[Fatalis]

Koppel said that the local villagers, except one, had no knowledge of Kerry's Presidential campaign and therefore implied that there is no bias to their account. Nonsense! These villagers lost relatives, houses and friends. It is perfectly natural to put out a story of fierce resistance when probably they were hiding in holes. They still live in Vietnam and they better follow the party line.

Exactly right. Ted Koppel just jumped the shark and is within spitting distance of Dan Rather.

Why was it important to get all of Elian's relatives out of the country simultaneously for interviews?
Why was it important to get all of Saddam's WMD scientists and family out of Iraq for interviews?

Because they live in totalitarian countries.

Yet Ted Koppel is pissed that O'Neill wouldn't let him play a Communist-stacked deck on the "kid in a loincloth" story in silence.

Hey Ted:

Got ice?

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Because they live in totalitarian countries."

Our media still believes, or at least uses, what these people tell them to further their agenda, which at this moment is to elect John Kerry.

I remember a Koppel report during the war about how he had not seen any Iraqi tanks destroyed and with all the drama about how dubious the claims of our higher command's claims of progress were. Of course the Iraqi tanks were shot all to hell and Baghdad fell three weeks from the start, but to hear Koppel tell it we were hanging on by a thread there.

And the same old stuff for decades from these guys. They never change.