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THIS AUCTION IS FOR A LOT OF 4 HC MEDIA NEWS BOOKS! ALL BOOKS ARE HARDCOVER BOOKS AND ARE IN LIKE ALMOST NEW CONDITION! A MUST HAVE FOR ANY FAN! HERE IS A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH BOOK:
1. "OFF CAMERA"-TED KOPPEL- Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999 - from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people (both on and off camera) who made the news, from Slobodan Milosevic to Hillary Rodham Clinton to John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Koppel's audio moves on yet another level as events trigger memories of his own past, providing a more personal resonance to his telling of the history we all share. He takes us back to the England in which he lived until he was 13. He revisits his powerful experiences as an interviewer investigating prison abuses and probing the violence in our schools. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the media, and talks about racial intolerance, brutality toward homosexuals, and the absence of political leadership.
Here is the voice we know from Nightline - intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned - reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives.
2. "NIGHTLINE"- TED KOPPEL-Koppel, an only child, was born in Lancashire, England, after his German-Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. His family came to the United States in 1953. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science Degree and from Stanford University with a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communications Research and Political Science. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.In 1963, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen , and married Grace Anne Dorney, on May 17.Koppel is multilingual, speaking German, Russian, and French, in addition to his native English.Koppel is an old friend of Henry Kissinger. Both Kissinger and Koppel come from European Jewish families; both moved to the United States as children. As Secretary of State, Kissinger once offered Koppel a job as his spokesman, but Koppel declined. Along with former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Kissinger was the most frequent guest on Nightline. In an interview, Koppel commented, "Henry Kissinger is, plain and simply, the best secretary of state we have had in 20, maybe 30 years -- certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of state of our century," and added, "I’m proud to be a friend of Henry Kissinger. He is an extraordinary man. This country has lost a lot by not having him in a position of influence and authority".Ted and Grace Anne have four children: Andrea Koppel (political and Chinese topical journalist), Deirdre, Andrew, and Tara.In 1993 Ted and Grace Anne paid $2.7 million for 16 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Potomac, Maryland.[3] The couple filed a law suit to hold their neighbors to an agreement to limit the size of the houses in the neighborhood to 10,000 square feet (930 m²).
Career
Koppel began his broadcasting career at WMCA Radio in New York. In June 1963, he joined ABC Radio News as a correspondent for its daily Flair Reports program. He moved to ABC Television in 1966 when reporting on the Vietnam War. In time, he distinguished himself as a foreign correspondent for ABC. Eventually, he became more widely known as the long-time lead anchorman for Nightline, a position he held when the program began on March 24, 1980. Koppel gave up that position on November 22, 2005.
Following Nightline Koppel has taken on a number of roles which span various formats of news media:
He was named managing editor of the Discovery Channel, where he will host and produce news programs covering major global topics and events.
He signed up as an opposite editorial-contributing columnist, effective January 29, 2006, for New York Times.[4]
Starting in June 2006, he has provided commentary to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day on National Public Radio, joining NPR's other two Senior News Analysts, Cokie Roberts and Daniel Schorr.[5] As such, he participated in the annual NPR Fourth of July reading of the Declaration of Independence in 2007.
Koppel guest appears from time to time on The Daily Show appearing in extreme close-up and disembodied, usually acting as Jon Stewart's journalistic conscience, sometimes as the replacement for the so-called "Giant Head of Brian Williams" projected on the screen behind Stewart (although, unlike Williams, Koppel has insisted that "this is the actual size of [his] head").
Koppel has received the George Polk Award for Television Reporting twice: in 1981 and in 1985 with Richard N. Kaplan. He has also been criticized for being a conduit for the government's point of view. In the late 1980s, the media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) conducted a 40-month study of 865 editions of Nightline and concluded, "On shows about international affairs, U.S. government policymakers and ex-officials dominated the Nightline guest list. American critics of foreign policy were almost invisible." In 1987, Newsweek opined, "The anchor who makes viewers feel that he is challenging the powers that be on their behalf is in fact the quintessential establishment journalist". Koppel responded to criticism saying, "We are governed by the president and his cabinet and their people. And they are the ones who are responsible for our foreign policy, and they are the ones I want to talk to".[1]
Departure from Nightline
On November 22, 2005, Koppel stepped down from Nightline after 25 years with the program and left ABC after 42 years with the network. His final Nightline broadcast did not feature clips highlighting memorable interviews and famous moments from his tenure as host, as is typical when an anchor retires. Instead, the show recalled Koppel's 1995 interviews with retired Brandeis University sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease). For this broadcast, Koppel interviewed sports journalist Mitch Albom, who had been a student of Schwartz. Albom talked about how the Nightline interviews led to him contacting Schwartz personally, visiting him weekly and eventually publishing the book Tuesdays with Morrie, chronicling lessons about life learned from Schwartz.
After the show's last commercial break, Koppel made his final remarks prior to signing off.....
3. "DEADLINES DATELINES"-DAN RATHER- In this collection of essays, Dan Rather reflects on political events and global issues of the latter half of the 20th century. Topics include Fidel Castro, Bill Gates's impact on American culture, the Oklahoma City bombing, and poverty in China.
4. "THE EMPIRE GOD BUILT-ALEC FOEGE-The Empire God Built looks beyond the politics of Robertson's achievement to chronicle his masterful creation of a media empire that blends both financial benefit and unprecedented political power. Alec Foege pieces together the entire corporate puzzle. He shows how Robertson assembled empire and explores how all of the segments work together to achieve ambitious goals.
5. "BIAS"-A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS- In 1996, veteran CBS News reporter and producer Bernie Goldberg committed the unpardonable sin of publicly mentioning the issue of liberal bias in the media. For that he became persona non grata at CBS. Goldberg tells how friends and colleagues turned on him, from junior CBS reporters all the way to Dan Rather. But much more than that, he exposes a bias so uniform and overwhelming that it permeates every news story we hear and read- and so entrenched and deep rooted that the networks themselves don't even recognize it.
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