My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
Ted KoppelJournalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
Ted KoppelEmotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
Ted KoppelOur society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel