Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for the American Broadcasting Company's Nightline.
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“There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.”
Ted Koppel
“In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.”
“[Jennings, ABC's chief news anchor for more than 20 years, was also] famously attracted to women, ... Even so, he only married four of them.”
“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.”
“Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.”
“The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.”
“I felt a certain amount of embarrassment about doing it (covering the trial) on a regular basis. Every time we did O.J., the ratings went up 10 percent.”
“The whole mood of the country has changed,”
“At some point, it would probably be time to pull out anyway,”