By: E&P Staff Ted Koppel, who is at last exiting "Nightline," tells The New York Times Magazine in an interview running this Sunday that the biggest problem with network TV news today is "they're giving up some of the very things that can differentiate them from the bloggers and other groups that are getting into journalism" -- namely, overseas coverage.
He also discloses that Orson Welles was the only guest who intimidated him and admits he always had the feeling that Bill Clinton "was at least two questions and three answers ahead of me." He add that he thinks comedian Darrell Hammond does a real good Koppel.
What's next for him? Koppel reflects, "I've been watching with great interest the fact that Howard Stern got $500 million for a five-year contract, and it does open all kinds of new possibilities."
Asked by Matt Bai what he thinks about people making fun of his hair, he replies: "I recognized a long time ago that it gives people something that they can mock me for, and frankly, I'd rather that they mock me about my hair than that they mock me about my story selection or dumb interviewing style or whatever else they might focus on."
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