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  • Ted taps war's toll (to devote entire Nightline episode to reading Iraq War death toll name by name)

    04/28/2004 10:22:18 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 27 replies · 142+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | April 28, 2004 | RICHARD HUFF
    Ted Koppel has been airing a segment for months on each edition of "Nightline" that lists U.S. military fatalities in Iraq. On Friday, Koppel and the "Nightline" team will turn the entire show over to naming those killed in combat in that conflict. "We'd been doing something called 'In the Line of Duty,'" Koppel said. "We were all beginning to feel it as sort of humdrum - it wasn't having any impact." The sense among the show's staff was that the deaths were seen as mere numbers - two here, three there. "Nightline" executive producer Leroy Sievers approached Koppel with...