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Ted Koppel Pens First Piece as 'NY Times' Columnist--Comes Out Swinging

NEW YORK In his first contribution after being named a New York Times columnist, former ABC newsman Ted Koppel declares, "I cannot help but see that the industry in which I have spent my entire adult life is in decline and in distress."

Koppel raps the new "calculated subjectivity" and forced empathy of cable news, and adds: "The accusation that television news has a political agenda misses the point. Right now, the main agenda is to give people what they want. It is not partisanship but profitability that shapes what you see."

But his view is that journalists "should be telling their viewers what is important, not the other way around. "

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