#ted koppel

From 2017:

President Trump: “To be honest, I inherited a mess! It’s a mess!”

Stephen Colbert: “No, you inherited a fortune; we elected a mess.”

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⬆️An awesome read, indeed⬆️

An amused Ted Koppel, a dismissive correspondent, and a disdainful English professor talk to Janet Dailey, Vivian Stephens, and Patricia Frazer Lamb about women and romance novels. The three women effortlessly throw it all back in their faces.

Just a list of the TV Journalists I'd like to fuck over the years.

#10. Morley Safer (1931–2016)

Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television.

#9. Ted Koppel

British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005. Before Nightline, he spent 20 years as a broadcast journalist and news anchor for ABC.

#8. Jim Lehrer (1934–2020)

American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, best known as an anchor of NewsHour, a nightly television news program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

#7. Steve Kroft

American retired journalist, best known as a long-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Kroft's investigative reporting garnered widespread acclaim, winning him three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 2003.

#6. Walter Cronkite (1916–2009)

American broadcast journalist and pioneer of television news programming who became known as “the most trusted man in America.” He was the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, for which he reported on many of the most historic events of the latter half of the 20th century.

#5. Bob Schieffer

American television journalist known for his moderation of presidential debates, where he has been praised for his capability. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics, serving as the anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News, as well as the Chief Washington Correspondent and moderator of the Sunday public affairs show, Face the Nation.

#4. Charles Kuralt (1934–1997)

American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.

#3. Mike Wallace (1918–2012)

American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality who was best known as one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968.

#2. Tim Russert (1950–2008) 

An American television journalist and lawyer who, as moderator (1991–2008) of the television program Meet the Press, was one of the most influential political commentators of his day.

#1. Dan Rather

Mayberry and the children of the Reagan Revolution

CBS This Morning ran a segment on Mount Airy, Andy Griffith’s home town and the basis for the fictional Mayberry of the Andy Griffith Show. Ted Koppel explores why Mount Airy has become a booming tourist destination for people searching for Mayberry. The show, he points out, was an escape from the harsh reality of the 1960s and bore little resemblance to American society for many Americans. At…