Biden and Koppel are part of a deeply entrenched D.C. elite that have enjoyed a decades-long pass from elite media, an absolution for idiotic statements, and an exemption from hard questions about those statements.
One of the reasons that Koppel's show has slowly fallen into irrelevance from which it was rescued only by distasteful explotiatation of the heroes of the GWOT is not the left-wing bias so much as its almost complete avoidance of hard questions and serious conversation about serious things. The same is true for Charlie Rose and Tim Russert and just about every wheezing talking head that used to matter. They don't press the left, really press the left.
If they did, of course, Joe Biden would shatter like the Christmas light ornament hitting the driveway. So would Koppel. So would they all.
..............The reason the House action of eight days ago was so warmly received by the GOP base --and so distasteful to the Beltway-- was that it refused to enable this cloistered left. By stripping the rhetoric to its bare essential --immediate withdrawal-- the Democrats and their pals with microphones and keyboards had to factor in clarioty and they ran for cover.
.............MSM would also benefit if it demanded of a new generation of anchors the sort of tough questions and editorial policies that reflect neither left nor right but a determination to force con men like Biden and Koppel to actually defend their absurd statements. The questions don't have to be intemperate or discourteous, just determined and informed. And though the hosts might have a few less dinner invites, the subscriptions and ratings would follow.
Brit Hume, for example. I think that many on the left do not want to be interviewed by this ever polite, ever well informed man.
Excellent post.
I read that Scott Ritter and Christopher Hitchens will be debating in the coming weeks; I'd pay money to witness that event.
Firm but fair, in-depth coverage, and leave their phoney opinions off the air....
Your views on the news are correct and a major change is coming....