Quotes by Ted Koppel

About Ted Koppel:

Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppel is a British American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and contributes to NBC News.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.

Ted Koppel

Emotions 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 Koppel

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Ted Koppel

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

Ted Koppel

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Ted Koppel

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 Koppel

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Ted Koppel

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

Ted Koppel

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will ­ adjust your lives, not the st...

Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

Ted Koppel

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Ted Koppel

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

Ted Koppel

Our 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

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Ted Koppel

Author Bio

  • NameTed Koppel
  • DescriptionTelevision journalist
  • BornJanuary 8, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; News Presenter
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award