Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel recently had a column in the New York Times. Here are three quotes from it:

"Their [television journalists] daily preoccupation with the trivial and the banal has accumulated large audiences, which, in turn, has encouraged a descent into the search for items of even greater banality."

"The goal for the traditional broadcast networks now is to identify those segments of the audience considered most desirable by the advertising community and then cater to them."

"It is not partisanship but profitability that shapes what you see."

Mr. Koppel worked at ABC News for 42 years.