Ted Koppel Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Ted Koppel quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 84 year old American journalist born on Jan 8, 1940.
“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.”
“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think we're glazing eyes all across America.”
“The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.”
“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”
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