of the things ted koppel probably believes on that. but what you can t do, if you are a journalist, is you can t fill up your story only with stuff that supports your conclusion, that tv, cable tv is a bad thing. so as a result, if you watched his story on nbc, you wouldn t know that brit hume existed as a commentator on fox. you wouldn t know that kirsten powers or charles krauthammer or juan williams who i disagree with about everything existed. they are all civil people whether you agree with them or not. they are not foaming at the mouth. that wasn t anywhere in the story because that would have screwed up his conclusion because they are reasonable. the second point is that he is so concerned about nastiness and instability, you remember after the tucson massacre, the new york times blamed this on conservative talk. they said it created an
of the things ted koppel probably believes on that. but what you can t do, if you are a journalist, is you can t fill up your story only with stuff that supports your conclusion, that tv, cable tv is a bad thing. so as a result, if you watched his story on nbc, you wouldn t know that brit hume existed as a commentator on fox. you wouldn t know that kirsten powers or charles krauthammer or juan williams who i disagree with about everything existed. they are all civil people whether you agree with them or not. they are not foaming at the mouth. that wasn t anywhere in the story because that would have screwed up his conclusion because they are reasonable. the second point is that he is so concerned about nastiness and instability, you remember after the tucson massacre, the new york times blamed this on conservative talk. they said it created an
of the things ted koppel probably believes on that. but what you can t do, if you are a journalist, is you can t fill up your story only with stuff that supports your conclusion, that tv, cable tv is a bad thing. so as a result, if you watched his story on nbc, you wouldn t know that brit hume existed as a commentator on fox. you wouldn t know that kirsten powers or charles krauthammer or juan williams who i disagree with about everything existed. they are all civil people whether you agree with them or not. they are not foaming at the mouth. that wasn t anywhere in the story because that would have screwed up his conclusion because they are reasonable. the second point is that he is so concerned about nastiness and instability, you remember after the tucson massacre, the new york times blamed this on conservative talk. they said it created an