Ted Koppel “had hoped that Chris Bury would succeed him as anchor…and that former producer Leroy Sievers would replace Bettag,” Howard Kurtz writes on C1 today. “But management, which hired British journalist James Goldston to run the program, had other ideas.”
“It’s their broadcast in the final analysis,” Koppel says. “I’ve always taken the position it’s our job to make the program as attractive to the audience as we could possibly make it, but there are limits. You don’t bring on dancing girls.” More…
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