Ted Koppel (formerly of ABC) now Senior News Analyst at NPR!

[Up2Late]

...and so far he's doing a great job.

This mornings commentary was his second time on as Senior News Analyst, and he slapped around snarky Morning Addition, host Steve Inskeep, pretty good. Here the link:

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5484045>

U.S. Troop Cutbacks in Iraq Not Likely Soon

Listen to this story...(at link above)

by Steve Inskeep and Ted Koppel

Morning Edition, June 14, 2006 ·
Don't expect a pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq in the
near future. An increase in sectarian violence and U.S. dependence
on Middle East stability -- largely because of oil-supply concerns --
argue against leaving Iraq.

I don't know if this indicates Daniel Schorr or Cokie Roberts are moving toward retirement, we'll see.

[RobertSeattle]

1. But his hair is too good for radio!

:evilgrin:

[fooj]

2. Unfortunately...the Congress is going after NPR...

and PBS...

[bananas]

7. Remember when the CIA went after ABC back in 1985?

A lot of DU'ers are probably unaware of this little bit of history...

http://groups.google.com/group/ca.politics/browse_thread/thread/fb4a0a69e810f038/8f018b2cc8e89a22?lnk=st&q=%22Capital+Cities%22++Casey&rnum=5&hl=en#8f018b2cc8e89a22

This is the fifth in a series of profiles on the major media corporations
in the United States. This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 1990 issue of
"Extra!", a publication of FAIR, and is reprinted here with permission.
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Capital Cities/ABC: No. 2, AND TRYING HARDER
By Doug Henwood

<snip>

| The Bill Casey Connection |
| |
| Several Capital Cities founders and board members have had |
| intelligence connections, but none more prominently than the |
| late CIA director William Casey. |
| Casey, along with broadcaster Lowell Thomas, Republican |
| leader Thomas Dewey and others, started Cap Cities in 1954. |
| Serving as the company's chief counsel, Casey was also a |
| board member until 1981, when he was appointed by Reagan to |
| head the spy agency. When Casey was forced to put his stocks |
| in a blind trust in 1983, he quietly kept control of his |
| largest single holding: $7.5 million in Cap Cities stock. |
| Despite his close connections to a company in the news |
| business, no one ever accused Casey of being a fanatical |
| supporter of the First Amendment. In November 1984, in his |
| official capacity as CIA director, he asked the Federal |
| Communications Commission to revoke all of "ABC"'s TV and |
| radio licenses, in retaliation for an "ABC News" report that |
| suggested the CIA had attempted to assassinate a U.S. citizen |
| ("ABC News," 9/19/84, 9/20/84). In February 1985, the CIA |
| asked the FCC to apply Fairness Doctrine penalties to the |
| network. The following month, "ABC" was bought by Casey's |
| Cap Cities. |
| (See "The Seizing of the American Broadcast Company," by |
| Andy Boehm, "L.A. Weekly," 2/20-26/87.) |
| --The Editors |
|__________________________________________________________________|

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "It's ALL about the oil" Did he ever make this point back in the day?

[Up2Late]

4. I couldn't tell ya, I stopped watching Network TV news in the late 1980's.

...plus, I was always a NBC Tom Browkaw watcher if I had the option.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I'll bet it was always "Freedom and Democracy" back then.

[rox63]

6. Daniel Schorr is getting pretty old

so I wouldn't be suprised to hear that he's retiring. But I'd much rather see them dump Cokie Roberts instead.

[sendero]

8. I heard that interview..

... and I came away totally unimpressed with Mr. Koppel.

[blm]

9. I've been disappointed in Koppel for years. He never hangs tough against

BushInc - even when he knows they are lying through their teeth, he acts more bemused by their hubris instead of outing them for their lack of integrity.

[ru4truth]

10. He didn't slap Steve Inskeep around. Misleading.

Why describe the discussion as Koppel slapping Inskeep around? I listened to the interview and that isn't the tone I heard.

[otohara]

11. Personal Pal is Colin Powell

Kopple had him on for 3 interviews, asked 60 questions, not one dealing with the lies he told the world,.