Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375727086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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And, indeed, he's blistering at times in this book, which is essentially a daily journal from 1999. Here's Koppel delivering his prognosis of the situation: "Whichever way it goes, it will leave a nasty aftertaste. Sometimes they're pompous: "I'm off for a meeting with Bill Bradley. Bush to Vanna White, and often informative, as when he's recommending books like Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden or Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (which he once gave as a gift to Clinton). It's at his request, which is a clear signal that he's running for the presidency." Sometimes they're funny: "Let's combine all the awards ceremonies for the communications and entertainment industries and name that one event after the single piece of equipment used by all of us--the microphone. He mentions that Jordan's late King Hussein "had his share of adultero
With this fascinating book, he finally lets us know the man behind the face we've trusted late at night for almost twenty years.Off Camera is a daily journal of the year that brought the twentieth century to a close--the year of Monica and Y2K, of shootings at Columbine, of the death of JFK, Jr. With riveting insight and lucid prose, Koppel chronicles his thoughts on these events and more, from interactive TV to the war in Kosovo to the dumbing down of network news. Ted Koppel, anchor of Nightline, is one of America's most intelligent and respected journalists. Witty, provocative, and wise, this book is indispensable.
1999 Daily Journal Of A Public Figure Nightline anchor and legendary tele-journalist Ted Koppel set out on January 1, 1999 with an interesting idea. He would write one entry per day in a diary that would record the events in his own life and in the world around him.Admirable.Koppel's notes on the goings-on in 1999 seem oddly distant in this post-911 world of 2005. Was the last year of the century just passed really quite as innocent as it seems in this record of a journalist and his travels across the world? That was the biggest point of notice I came away with from th. A Customer said America Held Hostage: Day "America Held Hostage: Day 25America Held Hostage: Day 254 A Customer Ted Koppel. That voice, the music, the graphics. I grew into television news with Ted-- though I called him Mr. Koppel in our private, if fictional, chats about world events. From that stage, I somehow expected a giant to emerge from the pages of "Off Camera", and that giant of a man should know all and tell all because, who could do it better? This is not that sort of book. It does not gossip; it does not lie. It is Mr. Koppel, though, and he's got a great deal to let us in on.What works in this diarist's format is the jangling ju. " according to A Customer. Ted Koppel. That voice, the music, the graphics. I grew into television news with Ted-- though I called him Mr. Koppel in our private, if fictional, chats about world events. From that stage, I somehow expected a giant to emerge from the pages of "Off Camera", and that giant of a man should know all and tell all because, who could do it better? This is not that sort of book. It does not gossip; it does not lie. It is Mr. Koppel, though, and he's got a great deal to let us in on.What works in this diarist's format is the jangling ju. 5America Held Hostage: Day 254 A Customer Ted Koppel. That voice, the music, the graphics. I grew into television news with Ted-- though I called him Mr. Koppel in our private, if fictional, chats about world events. From that stage, I somehow expected a giant to emerge from the pages of "Off Camera", and that giant of a man should know all and tell all because, who could do it better? This is not that sort of book. It does not gossip; it does not lie. It is Mr. Koppel, though, and he's got a great deal to let us in on.What works in this diarist's format is the jangling ju. . Ted Koppel. That voice, the music, the graphics. I grew into television news with Ted-- though I called him Mr. Koppel in our private, if fictional, chats about world events. From that stage, I somehow expected a giant to emerge from the pages of "Off Camera", and that giant of a man should know all and tell all because, who could do it better? This is not that sort of book. It does not gossip; it does not lie. It is Mr. Koppel, though, and he's got a great deal to let us in on.What works in this diarist's format is the jangling ju. Ted Gets Ornery John B. Maggiore The strangest myth of journalism is that in order to strive for objectivity, journalists purge themselves (or should purge themselves) of all opinions. Anyone whose ever read an article or seen a news broadcast knows that journalists have opinions, and they express them in all sorts of ways. The way Ted Koppel does in OFF CAMERA is not one of the more typical ways. Here he comments in a journal on the events of 1999, holding little back and stripping his opinions from some of the constraints and codes of his profession.All that isn