Ted Koppel has it all wrong and he's too intelligent to be so idiotic

[CreekDog]

yesterday on NPR he repeated his old saw about "bias".

his standard for judging journalism was not "is it true" but instead, "would someone say it was biased?".

because conservatives would say MSNBC was biased (even if it wasn't), then it's biased.

if liberals say Fox is biased, then it also flunks.

but nothing about one leading a false drumbeat to war, not a word from him about truth.

and that's why Ted's a dinosaur, and not a very bright one at that...like the Broders and Gergens and folks of their ilk, it's much more important that nobody know where you stand with regard to a story, even if you have to present truths and lies as equal to conceal any bias.

well that's stupid --and as journalism, it sucks. i value the journalism of Cronkite and Murrow and even Dan Rather more than Koppel. All of these were journalists and reporters first and their pursuit of truth was in parallel with their bias in favor of it. Frankly, we know how these great journalists felt about a subject and it would have been lying had they been willing to subjugate truth to impartiality.

i'll revive JFK's favorite quote here that the hottest fires of hell are reserved for men who in times of crisis preserve their neutrality. this is most certainly true.