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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 04:23 PM Mar 2017

Ted Koppel tells Fox News Sean Hannity he is bad for America

Ted Koppel had some bad news for Sean Hannity.

The retired “Nightline” host told Fox News’ Hannity to his face that he is “bad for America” in a TV interview that aired Sunday.
Koppel spoke with Hannity in a “CBS Sunday Morning” segment about political polarization and “alternate universes” of facts in America.The veteran newsman showed clips of Hannity and Rush Limbaugh — as well as left-wing comedians like John Oliver and Stephen Colbert — as examples of media figures who are “driving the country further and further apart.”

But Hannity — one of President Trump’s biggest boosters at the conservative news network — got some harsh truths delivered straight to him by Koppel in an interview.Koppel was unmoved by Hannity's argument that Americans are smart enough to tell the difference between news and opinion shows.

“Do you think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America?” Hannity asked.“Yeah,” Koppel calmly told him.
He noted that Hannity is “very good” at what he does and continued his argument — after calling out Hannity for repeatedly interrupting him.

“You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts," Koppel said.
Hannity lashed out at the segment on Twitter, calling it “fake edited news” and accusing CBS of cutting down a much longer interview.“I did about a 45 minute interview with CBS. They ran less than 2. Why did Ted cut out my many examples of media bias?” he wrote.Koppel, who retired in 2005, has been outspoken in his distaste for Fox News before. Speaking to Bill O’Reilly last March, Koppel told the Fox host he had made reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “irrelevant.”

“You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him — Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be,” Koppel told O’Reilly.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ted-koppel-tells-sean-hannity-bad-america-article-1.3009777

BY
JASON SILVERSTEIN

*See video of exchange at link*

See a REAL journalist- Koppel

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Ted Koppel tells Fox News Sean Hannity he is bad for America (Original Post) SummerSnow Mar 2017 OP
Bad????? IdiotsforPalin Mar 2017 #1
Good to see a 77 year old tell a younger white wing racist that he (Hannity) is bad for America. Hoyt Mar 2017 #2
Fox is bad for America sharedvalues Mar 2017 #3
Amen to that! n/t Different Drummer Mar 2017 #4
Talk about fake news.. Permanut Mar 2017 #5
Get him, Ted shenmue Mar 2017 #6
'You are Bad for America' BlueStateLib Mar 2017 #7

Permanut

(5,439 posts)
5. Talk about fake news..
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:43 PM
Mar 2017

Hannity has been at the forefront of the birther movement, claiming President Obama "grew up in Kenya", and "went to a Muslim school". Hannity is also a flag bearer for the climate change deniers. Must be some of Conways "alternative facts".

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