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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

~Ted Koppel

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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.

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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I have the necessary lack of tact.

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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.

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

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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 8th, 1940

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