Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just in case you missed it, the entire broadcast… Guests include Jon Corzine, Rob Portman, Erin Burnett, John Harwood, Paul Gigot and Ted Koppel. But still no Sarah Palin.
Make the logo bigger. (Free subscription) | yesterday
No other way to soften that title of a Discovery Channel special on race tonight by Ted Koppel. (Don’t worry, you can watch World’s Deadliest Catch the other 275 times it’s on this month.) I caught part of this on Meet The Press Sunday when he was promoting it. The voice they had on the short clip in this segment talked about voting for Obama not because of his race, but because of his qualifications....
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today on TV Ted Koppel retired from ABC News a few years back, but he certainly hasn't stopped delivering thoughtful and serious journalism. And he continues that tonight with a new documentary, Koppel on Discovery: The Last Lynching .
CALIFORNIA YANKEE (Free subscription) | yesterday
On "Meet the Press," Tom Brokaw, Erin Burnett, Paul Gigot, John Harwood, and Ted Koppel discuss how race will impact the election: I'd like to think we are beyond all that, but I don't think we are. I think there will still be a Bradly effect.
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is not glamorous work, but the job of NBC page, which helped launch the careers of Regis Philbin and Ted Koppel, is one of the most hard-won starting positions in broadcasting.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Economics and presidential politics will be the hot topics on the Sunday morning chat circuit. NBC's "Meet the Press" will offer an economics roundtable with Ted Koppel, Paul Gigot and Erin Burnett. Expect political talk from Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.,...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
From the Meet the Press website: An in-depth discussion about the financial crisis with Obama supporter Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and McCain supporter and former Bush Budget Director Rob Portman, R-Ohio. Then, a roundtable on the economy with Erin Burnett, Paul Gigot and Ted Koppel.
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
MCCAIN AND THE U.S. COUNCIL FOR WORLD FREEDOM.... On "Meet the Press" the other day, Ted Koppel asked Paul Begala about the political implications of McCain trying to smear Obama with William Ayers. Begala argued that this whole approach may...
Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Local media figures David Hume Kennerly and David Devoss (as well as Ted Koppel and others) show up in today's opener of a three-part...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
> B&C's Marisa Guthrie caught up with CBS CEO Les Moonves who is once again throwing his support behind Katie Couric : "I'm a patient man. And no one has a gun to their head." > Soup Cans notes an exchange between Ted Koppel and John McCain foreign policy director Randy Scheunemann during an NPR Talk of the Nation segment in which Koppel tries to get some Sarah Palin answers and feels strong pushback....
Citizen Crain (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Barack Obama makes history as not only the first black presidential nominee, but the first with two dads! Those Log Cabin boys must be feeling pretty darn foolish right about now! Somewhere in Washington, Ted Koppel is turning over in...
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Ted Koppel at the DNC on the media's failure to cover the real issues.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Two of the media old guard in Denver sat down to talk about the waste of the DNC this afternoon when Tom Brokaw interviewed Ted Koppel on MSNBC. After reflecting on how many conventions the two have covered (since '68 for Brokaw, 21 for Koppel since '64) each voiced his own frustration with the event. Koppel, the former ABC newsman who now works for BBC America, said he's been telling his audience...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Jack Tapper resurrects a Ted Koppel interview with Obama during the 2004 convention that includes this: ... Koppel asked, "But do you think that most the delegates on the floor really understand that President Kerry is not going to pursue a policy in Iraq that is essentially different from the one that George Bush is pursuing?" "Oh, I think that they understand that," Obama said. "I think that they...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
It was a very different time, the Iraq war was just over a year old, and then-state senator Barack Obama was in a very different place. In 2004, former Nightline anchor Ted Koppel interviewed the keynote speaker of the 2004...
