Ted Koppel in Texas talks about State of American Journalism
Jasper Scherer--San Antonio Express News
“What social media does is give all of us the opportunity to say anything at any time at any length about anybody, without regard to fact-checking or its accuracy,” he said. “That’s something totally new.”
In his lecture about the state of journalism in America, Koppel offered a grave assessment of political polarization in the U.S. while underlining the importance of factual accuracy.
“When I would write a script, my script would be read by the executive producer, by a senior producer, by a fact-checker, before I could put it on the air,” he said. “And I felt wonderful about that.”
He later added that “a nation like ours cannot survive in freedom if we are incapable of agreeing on something as simple as what is factual.”
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