Creative Quotations from Ted Koppel (1940-___

Creative Quotations from . . .

Ted Koppel
(1940-____) born on Feb 8

US broadcast journalist. He has been the anchor for ABC's "Nightline," 1980, which was started to cover the Hostages in Irran; won an Emmy, 1981.

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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

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.

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.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Interrupting a long-winded guest, "Nightline," ABC TV 13 Feb 1987.
R:	On interviewing guests on "Nightline;" in "The Smartest Man on TV" by Nancy Collins, in "New York," 13 Aug 1984.
A:	From a collection of quotations found on the Internet.
N:	On interviewing guests on "Nightline;" in "The Smartest Man on TV" by Nancy Collins, in "New York," 13 Aug 1984.
K:	In "People," 17 Dec 1984.