Word: koppel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear we've risen so high we're being ignored during our quadrennial chance to show off. For a brief, shining moment we had Dick Morris: since then, nothing. After the second debate, where Jack Kemp, the designated slasher, came off more like Barney than Freddy Krueger, even Ted Koppel gave up. "Here we have one of the most civil debates in history, and we can barely stay awake," he said. Then the press began to chide moderator Jim Lehrer for being too nice. "He drains the energy out of the room,'' declared a reporter in the Washington Post...
...enough about winning." Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, complained that "if you came down from Mars and saw this debate, you might think that Al Gore was a moderate Republican...and Jack Kemp was the Democrat." Even Dole, in an interview with ABC's Ted Koppel, cracked that Kemp and Gore got along so famously that "it looked like a fraternity picnic there for a while...
...chosen Death with Dignity, who wanted, before leaving public life, to erase his public image as a growling hatchet man and put on display for the history books the kind of senatorial courtesy he has been known for in his 35 years on Capitol Hill. Asked by Koppel whether he'd rather "lose as a gentleman or win rough," Dole replied, "Well, I'd like to win, but there are certain limits. I can't see myself getting into the mud here in the last three weeks...Whatever happens, I want to be at peace with myself when...
...public could honestly say they were "paying attention," down from 42% at the same stage of the campaigns in '92. And in time, there was less and less to pay attention to. The only group to walk out of the Republican Convention was not the Buchananites but Ted Koppel and his camera crew. By October the candidates had become harder to find on TV than intelligent, nonviolent children's programming. There was talk, among the environmentally concerned, of recycling America's stock of voting booths as Portosans...
...results didn't satisfy anyone. Network anchors obsessed constantly about the "tightly scripted" event they were forced to endure. Ted Koppel and the Nightline crew got so frustrated they left town. Republican officials grumbled that their TV extravaganza was getting short shrift from the network cameras. (Showcased speakers such as Gerald Ford and Christine Todd Whitman were largely ignored.) Ratings, meanwhile, were catastrophically bad: the combined three-network audience fell 25% from four years ago; just over 12% of the nation's TV homes tuned...