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🗓️ 29 October 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The tables are turned this week when Ralph gets to ask the questions in our interview with legendary broadcast journalist Ted Koppel about the state of the media and his book Lights Out: A Cyber Attack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:05.7 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. |
0:11.9 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David how are you doing? |
0:18.0 | Very good. This is the best part of my week. |
0:20.0 | And of course here we are with the man of the hour just back from a book tour in the Pacific Northwest the breaking through power book |
0:26.8 | We have Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello, we have an extraordinary subject today. Yes, we have another landmark show for you today that we are going to get to as quickly as possible. |
0:37.0 | We're going to be spending the bulk of the program speaking with legendary broadcast journalist Ted Koppel. |
0:42.0 | And at the end, Ralph is going to talk |
0:44.0 | about his friend and colleague the late Tom Hayden but David introduce our |
0:49.5 | guest over the course of 26 years is anchor and managing editor of the ABC News |
0:53.9 | program Nightline, Ted Koppel became the longest serving and most honored news |
0:59.3 | anchor in US broadcast history. After leaving ABC in 2005, Mr. Koppel produced 20 hours of documentaries for the Discovery Network, |
1:09.1 | where he served as managing editor. |
1:11.2 | Since then, he has worked as a contributing analyst for BBC America and a special correspondent |
1:16.7 | for the NBC News Magazine program Rock Center. |
1:20.6 | A member of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, Mr. Coppola has won every major broadcasting |
1:24.9 | award including 42 Emmys, 8 Peabodies, and two George Polk awards. |
1:31.3 | His most recent book is The New York Times bestseller Lights Out, which |
1:35.0 | examines and evaluates potential ways for America to prepare for a cyber catastrophe. |
1:42.2 | And as of February of this year, Mr. Koppel has been working for CBS News as senior contributor |
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