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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Ted Koppel Confronts O'Reilly For Making TV Journalism Entertainment, Thus Enabling Trump

Watch Ted Koppel shred Bill O'Reilly for making journalism "irrelevant" when it comes to Donald TrumpEnlargeBill O'Reilly, Ted Koppel (Credit: Fox News)
On “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday evening, host Bill O’Reilly welcomed former “Nightline” host Ted Koppel onto the show — but as it turned out, Koppel wasn’t interested in playing the role of a polite guest, especially not on the subject of Donald Trump.

“I’ve interviewed him a number of times,” O’Reilly said, and it’s “not an easy interview. How would you do it?”

“You and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years,” Koppel said. “It’s irrelevant how I would do it.”

“You know who made it irrelevant?” he asked. “You did. You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him — Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.”

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