Response to Koppel's Journalistic "Objectivity"

I remember watching the birth of Nightline way back in '79 with my Dad during hostage crisis; 14 months of crucial, meaningful reporting. But, Ted fell way off the deep-journalism path a looong time ago, with heavy detail on OJ & other tabloidism, while he gave passes to the powerful elite who have historically wrecked the economy & sent us to wars with eternal costs.

And unlike he declares, broadcast news always made MAJOR profits, as far back as '65, NBC got $27 million in ad revenue. So one can't say profits suddenly had an enormous role, as if they weren't always in the big media game, of which he's been part for 40+ years.

On this most basic of facts that Ted stakes his claim of distinction, past vs. future journalism, how did he manage to get it so insanely wrong? Makes thinking ones wonder, was he actually practicing egoless, meaningful journalism all that time, or is he miffed that folks like Olbermann are actually going way deeper in probing some undeniably diabolical schemes being hatched by the rich & powerful while his own milquetoast record indicates his "objective" journalism failed to get off the cheerleading sidelines, as we brainlessly rushed into 2 horrifically devastating wars?

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