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June 22: "Our topic tonight is Democratic gridlock and how to break it," Ted Koppel declared at the beginning of a special edition of Nightline. "With us are all five candidates...
...late CIA director William Casey was not really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...
Television is not necessarily the enemy of rational thought. Sometimes the medium serves brilliantly, not only to display events but also to analyze them. Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC is intelligent and penetrating. The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on public television has a clear, steady eye and the time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span...
This equalizing effect occurs because television most rewards not words or achievements but coronas of personality. Ted Koppel often seems more knowledgeable than the experts he questions, and George Will triumphantly bolder than Cabinet members who, unlike him, must bear policy responsibility for what they say. It took another corona of personality, Ronald Reagan, to reduce the dominance of the Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar...
...Koppel, for his part, behaved like a circus ringmaster determined to wring every ounce of ersatz drama out of the confrontation in the lion's cage. He pointedly delayed asking the predictable Donna Rice questions. It was all for naught: the answers were unrevealing. Hart persisted in describing Rice as "this attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced...