Friday, April 30, 2004
Koppel: Pimping for Ratings? or for ANSWER?
So many questions about this... It's like Hershel's grandmother used to say, "It all depends on how ya looks at it. Tip your head to the left and close your right eye and it looks one way. Tip your head to the right and ..." Each and every one of those young men and women deserves to be a real person with a name and a face in the mind of the American people. As do the young men and women who serve in Afghanistan. And the men and women who worked in Manhattan. And does he believe that the last name he reads will be the last person to die? Godfahbid anyone else will die, but how does Ted know this, today? Koppel has said he was inspired to do this "story" by the Life magazine article toward the end of the Vietnam War. Luce's whole point in doing that Life piece was to stir the public to make America pull out. And it worked. Which makes it difficult to not impugn the same motivation to Koppel's story. It also happens to be the first day of "sweeps week." Which the exec. producer of Nightline maintains they did not know. Un huh. The very existence of his job depends on good ratings during "sweeps" and he, what, forgot? Which indicates a serious, serious underestimation of the intelligence of his audience, and the rest of us. He thinks we're TV-tards. Dork. Tonight's show won't, in itself, be big numbers. But all this buzz will make people tune in for the rest of the week just to see what goes on. Oh, and Ted? As to your "objectivity" as a "newsman?" Right there beside Baba Wawa. And Jon Stewart. More: Oh,, and Go Sinclair Broadcasting.
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