Ted Koppel Tells Sean Hannity He Thinks He's Bad for America

[bathroommonkey76]

[still_one]

1. Sorry I can't watch all of it, but what I did see was the typical media setting up the false

equivalency theme.

"Both sides do it"

BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!

[jrthin]

2. I think today's media is bad for America.

This new journalism of equating false equivalence is just destructive and places every argument in the same context. Sigh.

[Moostache]

3. I call "Bullshit"...

When you give a platform for Hannity and the right wing radio bomb squad to say that their "point of view" is factual and allow them to cloak themselves in ANYTHING but the disgrace they earn daily, it is a sham.

This is very easy to solve....reinstitute the fairness doctrine and END the right wing radio empire. I will wager any amount that within 90 days the tone of the communications in the mass media will be different.

Truth and facts MATTER. The obfuscation of them is what leads to the false equivalency problems and propaganda we are deluged with every minute of the day. If you traffic in half-truths, you traffic in lies and you should be called to carpet for it...EVERY TIME YOU DO IT.

[yuiyoshida]

5. I wish they would reinstitute the fairness doctrine but I know it won't happen

Those corporations that run the show are basically held by Republicans.

[pecosbob]

4. If you engage the rat-f*ckers without first establishing goalposts grounded in reality

you play into their agenda

[Stellar]

6. Democrats were fighting hard to keep the fairness doctrine..

and lost. That's when it all went down hill. Republicans were able to say anything that they wanted without being challenged.

[pressbox69]

7. Koppel has good reason

to look down his nose at Hannity. Then again Ed Murrow would have good reason to look down his nose at Koppel.