Ted Koppel: Our Children's Children's War

[bananas]

Just saw an ad for this on tv,
it will air March 11 on the Discovery channel.

http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-defense/20070215/DCTH02215022007-1.html

Discovery Channel and Ted Koppel Present KOPPEL ON DISCOVERY: OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S WAR; A Look at the Future of the War on Terror

SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you expect the War on Terror to end with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, or with the establishment of a stable government in Afghanistan, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. While the eyes of the world focus on those conflicts, the U.S. military is fighting an unconventional war that could last generations. Widely known as the War on Terror, the outgoing commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, refers to it as The Long War. Ted Koppel presents an in-depth special report on a war that may last longer than any in which the U.S. has been involved before. KOPPEL ON DISCOVERY: OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S WAR premieres on Discovery Channel on Sunday, March 11 at 9 PM (ET/PT).

U.S. military officials point out that Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations are not thinking in terms of a campaign that will end in five, 10, or even 20 years. Instead, they are looking as far as 100 years into the future, and the U.S. has no choice but to do the same. In this special report, Koppel explores the challenges this prolonged struggle presents and how America's military is trying to adapt. His interview with Gen. Abizaid is featured throughout the broadcast.

Koppel and his team of producers take viewers to Afghanistan where the American military is fighting an increasingly powerful Taliban; to Djibouti where the U.S. is building schools and digging wells; to Ethiopia where the U.S. is training commandos while the war in next-door Somalia rages; and to North Carolina where private military firm Blackwater USA is training military and civilian personnel for life on the front lines.

Previous KOPPEL ON DISCOVERY broadcasts include THE PRICE OF SECURITY and IRAN: THE MOST DANGEROUS NATION.

KOPPEL ON DISCOVERY: OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S WAR is produced by Discovery Channel Managing Editor Ted Koppel and Executive Producer Leroy Sievers. They are joined by a team of some of the best researchers and producers in the industry. Together they are producing a slate of long-form programming exclusively for Discovery Channel that touches on some of the most important events, people and places changing lives today. From field reporting to script writing, every aspect of the series is shaped by Koppel's 44 years of experience and unparalleled journalistic integrity.

Discovery Communications, Inc.

Discovery Communications, Inc. is the number-one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion people in over 170 countries. Through TV and new media, Discovery's 100-plus worldwide networks include Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Health. DCI is owned by Discovery Holding Co. (NASDAQ: DISCA) , Cox Communications Inc., Advance/Newhouse Communications and John S. Hendricks, Discovery's founder and chairman. For more information please visit http://www.discovery.com/.
Website: http://www.discovery.com/

[bananas]

1. related article I just found

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-candaele/ted-koppel-still-embedde_b_40650.html

Ted Koppel: Still Embedded? (6 comments )
READ MORE: Iraq, Ted Koppel, United States, Chris Taylor, Cofer Black, Robert Greenwald, North Carolina, New York

Ted Koppel appeared on NPR earlier this week, where he is now a regular commentator, and again made a pitch for private contractors doing the nation's warring business in Iraq. He's been at this for some time now, He's been at this for some time now, having chummy conversations with the likes of former CIA spook Cofer Black and Chris Taylor at Blackwater USA, one of the many companies that supply over 15,000 security personel who run VIPs from the airport to the Green Zone, escort an Iraqi Minister or the U.S. Ambassador from point A to point B. Blackwater, which has a large training compound in North Carolina, is also featured in Robert Greenwald 's Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers, a documentary film that takes a hard look at the public rip-off, fraud, and corruption of several private companies doing business in Iraq who employ over 100,000 men and woman to do what, often enough, was done by the U.S. military in past wars.

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[Gabi Hayes]

11. thanks for the very informative link, including this comment:

Back in 1987, Newsweek noted a basic disparity between the image and function of Ted Koppel: "The anchor who makes viewers feel that he is challenging the powers that be on their behalf is in fact the quintessential establishment journalist."

In that light -- considering the overall coverage of Washington's foreign-policy establishment by NPR News -- Ted Koppel does seem like a natural fit.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2801...

Fear and Favor in the Newsroom (1996)
http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=...

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Fuck Ted Koppel and his bestest girl, Henry Kissinger

people who think he's any sort of progressive voice are out of their minds

he can never make up for what his show helped do to this country

just one example is the sort of opinions he allowed to be expressed during the run up to the invasion

that's just one; there are myriad others

[bananas]

3. The promo was scary

hope this wakes people up.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. I doubt it, unless it involves congressmen trying to have sex with young boys.

remember THAT's what it took to turn things around in the last election

the pugs were GAINING GROUND in all the polls before that happened

doesn't anybody remember that?

the VAST majority of people don't pay any attention unless it affects them directly. they want the troops out, but they're very against cutting funding. how does that make any sense? they don't have a clue

all they care about is who advances on American Idol

[bananas]

5. you're right

and this propoganda piece will probably wake people up the wrong way,
using fear to sell war.

[blues90]

10. Agreed

Koppel stood right there in Iraq when the shock and awe began and said we were an awesome , precison killing machine and with this promoted the attack on an defenseless nation . He is a traitor and a liar .

[SoCalDem]

6. The child of your enemy is the enemy of your child ..n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

7. tweety just said that in so many words:

WHEN are we going to stop seeing Americans killing Iraqis on TV all over the world, as in TV viewers worldwide seeing this.

[bananas]

8. Well put. nt

[SoCalDem]

9. I made this back when the war was just starting