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Article: Canonizing Ted Koppel
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2002
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Canonizing Ted Koppel
By PHILIP TERZIAN
Sunday, March 10, 2002
You would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by the
prospect of network executives replacing "Nightline" with "Late Night
with David Letterman." Since word was leaked that ABC was trying to
lure Letterman away from CBS -- casting "Nightline" and its famous
anchor, Ted Koppel, adrift -- members of the print media (as the TV
people like to call them) have been beside themselves with concern.
Of course, Koppel was not born yesterday, and for the first week
or, so he let his friends and admirers at The New York Times do the
dirty work. Day after day, there were stories about the new bottom-
line mentality in TV news, the ...