Why Ted Koppel Is A Star

ABC’s Ted Koppel is a star, Jon Friedman writes. “He doesn’t preen. He doesn’t shout. He doesn’t try to embarrass the people he is interviewing. He doesn’t play the fashionable journalese “gotcha!” game with his guests. And he isn’t fixated with showing everyone that he is the smartest person in the room, either.” The bottom line: “Koppel made the news, not entertainment, his main focus.”