WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2005
Washington Post
Ted Koppel brought rare intelligence and perseverance to his craft, says
Tom Shales. "Part of the pleasure of tuning in was that you could see him think," he writes. "Thought is a rare commodity on TV, making Koppel rather lonely in his virtuosity. But virtuoso he was, and his disappearance from regular exposure on the tube has to be seen as another ominous marker in the demise of network news, following as it does the unseemly dethroning of
Dan Rather at CBS, the orderly retirement of
Tom Brokaw at NBC and the tragic death of
Peter Jennings at ABC."
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