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Inquisitor Koppel...
...surprise to learn that Ted Koppel's ethics and integrity [Jan. 30] emanate from a set of sound personal values as well as intellectual honesty...
...Cronkite, Huntley and Chancellor, Presidents and potential Presidents were treated with some deference. Dan Rather's defiance of Nixon, scandalous at the time, began the real change. Now the preferred style is a harrying, rapid-fire crossexamination, not hostile but not chummy either. The masters are Ted Koppel ("But, sir, you haven't answered my question"), Bill Monroe, Sam Donaldson. They allow their subjects no easy outs or blurred distinctions. It's show time. Mixed in with these are opinionated questioners, such as George F. Will and Robert Novak, who bring decided views over from their editorial...
Visually, the apotheosis of TV star journalism was ABC's nuclear panel that followed The Day After. Like a Supreme Court Justice, Koppel stared down at the likes of Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, Robert McNamara, who tried to catch his eye or answer his questions. In New Hampshire Koppel sat democratically alongside the eight candidates, visually their equal, not their superior...
...Koppel remains hot enough and cool enough to propel it. -By William A. Henry...