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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:35 PM
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Ted Koppel exposed the Swift Boat Liars. Let's all contact him.
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ahimsa Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 04:49 PM
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1. That's debatable
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 04:50 PM by ahimsa
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101804.html

Excerpt:But this is the way of your millionaire press corps (links below). Yes, they do find plenty of time to hob-nob with the people they’re supposed to be covering. But they simply refuse to do background work—to familiarize themselves with the simplest facts about the topic they’re allegedly covering. Simply put, Ted Koppel is too rich and unconcerned to bother with basic background reading. Result? O’Neill simply lied in Koppel’s face. And give O’Neill credit—his did know his man. He gambled that Koppel would be unprepared. Predictably, he wasn’t disappointed.

On edit: but by all means, contact him! Maybe ask him to do the right thing and learn something before he takes it on the air!
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:19 PM
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3. He proved O'Neill lied and cut him off. He made O'Neill look like a fool
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newscaster Donating Member (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:22 PM
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6. Millionaire Press Corps???????
Three TV anchors and a handful of radio talk show hosts do not make an entire corps of millionaires. I retired from the news business after 45v years and I am hardly a millionaire. The millionaires are the guys who hire the anchors and reporters and pundits....the guys who own the companies that own the media. The ones who dont have a clue what journalism is all about. Those are the ones you should jump on .
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ahimsa Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 07:16 PM
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7. Did you read the Daily Howler?
That was a quote from that article, not my words. My only point was that when emailing him, make sure you also give him enough facts (or links to facts) so he knows what he's talking about.
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Maccagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:17 PM
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2. And the result was?
A big fat so what?
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:20 PM
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4. We need someone to expose the fraud. I think he's an option.
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BayStateBoy Donating Member (562 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:21 PM
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5. For God's Sake, Let's Not Be Picky. Any Port in a Storm
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 05:25 PM by BayStateBoy
Craig Crawford ccrawford@cq.com

Keith Olbermann countdown@msnbc.com

Ron Reagan rreagan@msnbc.com

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