The Koppel Era, Part I

Beginning the first of what we assume will be many a piece celebrating the end of the Ted Koppel‘s quarter century on the only late-night news show, Howard Kurtz looks at the legacy of the Nightline host as he prepares to step down later this month to pursue his own documentary projects:

Telling a story about Koppel’s feelings on the war on Iraq, Kurtz opines, “It is classic Koppel: tough-minded, eloquent, focused on world affairs and sometimes, it seems, conducting his own foreign policy.