>> ^TheGenk:

I fully exected a "Technical difficulties"-screen to pop up.


I'll exect you!

Your video, Ted Koppel: Fox News 'Bad for America', has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

FOX reveals the rest of the media for what they are and have been from the start: propagandists for taxocrats and left-wing dogma. And that's not counting the fools in hollywood.

The whole 'Liberal is to "WHAT bias?" as Fish is to "WHAT water?"' will not be rehashed here.

Koppel and Friends failed the American people before there was even a FOX. They lost the trust (and ratings) through their own betrayal of objective journalism.

>> ^KnivesOut:

Noble? What a fucking retard.


Retard? No...I don't believe he's stupid. He's doing this knowingly, having sold his integrity for whatever the coin was. In short, he's actually evil.

It's edited for this viddy there, shuac-

Koppel rode the wave following the perfect storm of the Iranian hostages prior to Khomeini to fix his legacy in television stone-These veteran news heads can back away from their agenda-oriented handlers once they achieve some tenure amounting to "trust" (whatever the fuck that means in the realm of programmed news coverage) from the masses of robots (at least 80% of the world's population in so-called, 1st world countries).

O'Reilly? Complete cunt piece of shit. Such a cunt, that were it his job to promote a so-called, LIBERAL bias according to his employment with ACME news corp. etc., he'd have all of you fans of Maddow, Maher, Colbert, etc. just as fucking fawning as the next dupe.....NEWS NOT/NEWS-It's all designed to turn your brains liquid so information can be inserted and predictably called-upon to further the cause of assholes and cunts.

Yes, your mind is not your own, oh children of technology and of nothing better to do than work and fuck....planets' going places, wish it were another direction-

Out of all that talking and the article one thing is very clear... Truth is in the eye of the beholder in, basically, any human historical event. Science, or to be more clear, mathematics and proofs/experiments that can be done by anyone are a real version of truth. As humans we do have many ways to find the differences between a liar and truth teller (sooner or later science may end this debate via PET scans and it's like).

The real point comes down to the Internet and the dissemination of information. There will be a point where the talking heads are much, as Koppel would say, demagogues for a various flavor. From my own experience; Keith has had his moments, but... He tends to be the only voice of reason that's loud. I tend to think he has grown more into this type of position as Fox and their cohorts have grown ever increasingly the person crying fire in the theater.

Fox, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, and the beast that has a framework between all: The Internet; is becoming the prime news source.

While the large number of television viewers will have an impact on thought and truth. The card that seems to have been played from move one to now, is education.

As the future progresses we need the media to get the information we would NEVER have access to. But, the intellectual ability of so many Americans is far from any agreeable state. Many of us on here can see almost all the lies and dismiss them. The problem is the demagogues are using any means to win; religion, "insert"ist, etc... I'd increase the education spending three to four times if I could. Not allowing school boards to break apart lessons. Some sort of law that applies to non-public schools (of course it would skip church vs. state issues, but if you bring up the dissemination of Biology lessons enjoy your Supreme Court appearance). Next, undo the methodology of current teaching setups. Most of it is based on very, very, very old teaching methods. An update would be nice.

/long
//no grammer checking, to tired, except for the first thing--that's a joke

As much as I am against NewsCorp and everything it stands for, I have to absolutely agree with Mr. Koppel here and say that the internet helped facilitate this.

"But we are no longer a national audience receiving news from a handful of trusted gatekeepers; we're now a million or more clusters of consumers, harvesting information from like-minded providers."

With the incredible free flow of information and inevitable formation of online communities, everything in itself becomes a self-feeding information frenzy. The internet will conform to what you search for, and finding factual information is becoming more difficult as it get's crowded out by all of the misinformation sometimes out right lies that are posted every minute.

Every source can call itself as an absolute truth without fear of consequences, and sometimes do so purposefully in order to garner attention and "hits." This sensationalism has always existed and only gets more prevalent and easier to find now that online communities grow larger and more popular. The advent of more advanced search algorithms in search engines allow you to find that one specific article that you're looking for regardless of how true or untrue it is.

Nowadays people equate finding something on google to being true. These ever-increasing online communities almost guarantee that as long as a person sees a headline that supports a certain idea or that person wants to "fact check" someone's point of view/claim, he or she will find the article in question.

The only solution I see to this problem is to educate a person on how to find information on the internet for themselves. I myself have been using the internet for over 17 years, and I can see the people that do not know how to find information always go to single sources and don't do enough digging to find out if what in fact they read is true. This is becoming increasingly difficult as the prevalence of the use of the internet is increasing at a much faster rate than the knowledge one needs to be able to use it effectively and reliably.

The internet, as we all know, is serious business.

Thank you very much!

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^colt45:
Where's the video for what he is responding to?

He's responding to an article Ted Koppel penned for the dead tree media:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/
11/12/AR2010111202857.html

>> ^colt45:

Where's the video for what he is responding to?


He's responding to an article Ted Koppel penned for the dead tree media:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202857.html

That was pretty well presented.
I wonder if Ted Koppel will respond.

I like Rachel Maddow's hair. As for bad male hair, are you people telling me you have forgotten about Ted Koppel?

I think a more descriptive title might attract more attention.
Video info from YT: William F. Buckley on cigarettes, illegal drugs and hypocrisy, excerpt from 1988 ABC TV special hosted by Ted Koppel