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Ted Koppel Pens First Piece as 'NY Times' Columnist--Comes Out Swinging By E&P Staff Published: January 29, 2006 12:45 AM ET NEW YORK In his first contribution after being named a New York Times columnist, former ABC newsman Ted Koppel declares, "I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress." Koppel raps the new "calculated subjectivity" and forced empathy of cable news, and adds: "The accusation that television news has a political agenda misses the point. Right now, the main agenda is to give people what...

Departing anchor asks audience to support show or network will pull itNEW YORK - As he walked out the door, Ted Koppel couldn’t resist one last dig at the network that almost dumped him three years ago. Koppel, in his final broadcast Tuesday after more than 25 years as anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline,” asked his fans to give successors Martin Bashir, Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran a fair break when they start on Monday. “If you don’t,” he said, “I promise you the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then you’ll be sorry.”

"As ABC's White House Correspondent, New Nightline Anchor Terry Moran Pushed a Liberal Agenda" Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, put together by the MRC's Rich Noyes, which was distributed by fax this afternoon. Moran: We're Now World's Bad Guys "Mr. President, recently Amnesty International said you have established, quote, ‘a new gulag of prisons around the world beyond the reach of the law and decency.' I'd like your reaction to that, and also your assessment of how it came to this, that that is a view not just held by extremists and anti-Americans, but by groups...