Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Thursday, November 18, 2004
The time has come to retire Nightline and LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM (see second item). Twenty-five years ago the concept of late-night themed news and instant interviews was bold, but cable and the Web superceded the grand idea, and increasingly a very fine reporter compromised himself with guest hosts and prerecording and clever editing; in time he became the PC sage of his business, belching platitudes from a haze atop his home-built Olympus. Let the LORD live out his dotage on his ten-million acre spread, where he can pine over the days when HE, not JON STEWART, was THE SECOND COMING OF MURROW.
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