Ted Koppel telling Sean Hannity that he is bad for America to his face.

.@seanhannity: "You think I'm bad for America?"

The great Ted Koppel, to his face: "Yeah."

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— justin kanew (@justin_kanew) March 26, 2017

Now THAT is good TV!

Ted Koppel is the best.

Ted Koppel explains to Bill O'Reilly that he helped to make journalism "irrelevant."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel said on Wednesday that his Fox News counterpart Bill O’Reilly has undermined journalists’ ability to interview Donald Trump. 

“I’ve interviewed him a number of times,” O’Reilly said of the Republican front-runner. “Not an easy interview. How would you do it?” 

“You and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years. It’s irrelevant how I would do it,” Koppel replied. “You know who made it irrelevant? You did. You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years — you took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him; Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.” 

The real estate mogul’s audience, Koppel added, was not even a television audience, but one better suited for Twitter. 

“They deal in messages of 140 characters or less, which keeps it nice and simple,” he explained.

Good for Ted Koppel to throw this is O'Reilly's face. 

Of course it clearly had no impact because O'Reilly just keeps right on asking hims questions as if he didn't just blame the destruction of the fourth estate on him and others at Fox News.

Actually Fox News is responsible for far more than the end of journalism in this country, they are also responsible for how deeply ideological the country is right now, the rise of the Tea Party, and of course the creation of Donald Trump.

Personally I think that Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and the talking heads at Fox News are guilty of sedition if not outright treason.

An d I don't really think that is an exaggeration.

Ted Koppel: Fox News "Bad for America."

Koppel: "Bill what is it you think I have said about the network, or written about the network?"

O'Reilly: "You think that we have corrupted the sanctity of fair news coverage."

Exactly!

But I would go further. I think that Fox News has virtually destroyed journalism in this country.

I also think that they are the SOLE reason that we had George W. Bush, and therefore TWO completely unnecessary wars, which cost thousands of American lives, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan lives.

(Remember the 2000 election was called a Gore win by NBC and MSNBC first, which was then followed by the other networks, including Fox. That is until Fox got a call from their corporate masters and suddenly changed their minds and decided that Bush had won, which essentially called the election results into question until the Supreme Court called it in Bush's favor. In truth Gore most likely won that state, and if Fox had not made their erroneous claim, which sent over 20,0000 voters home without voting since they believed their candidate had lost, he ABSOLUTELY would have won.)

Fox News also almost single handily started the Tea party movement which is now causing unbelievable  gridlock in the American political system, essentially derailing it from within.

And then of course there's Sarah Palin. Need I say more?

So yes Fox News is indeed "bad for America" in fact I think they are guilty of treason and that both Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch should be led in front of a firing squad and executed.

But hey, that's just me.

Koppel on the Daily Show. Now that is how to get interviewed by Jon Stewart! By bringing the funny!

Jon tries to explain the Chris Matthews kerfuffle the night before.

Jon: "You see he came out with this premise..."
Koppel: "I don't care."

The way they fed each other straight lines was comic gold my friends.