Ted Koppel: "Establishment Press" Decided That Trump Is Bad For The United States, "Out To Get Him"

Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel said President Trump is "not mistaken" that the media is "out to get him" <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2019/03/18/ted-koppel-trump-not-mistaken-about-biased-liberal-media">in a discussion with Marvin Kalb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</a>. Koppel said 'The New York Times' is "committed" to making sure Trump is not elected and that the president the "liberal media" have become part of "the resistance." On Sunday, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/17/dan_rather_with_twitter_donald_trump_has_most_powerful_platform_for_propaganda_in_human_history.html">said Trump has the "most powerful platform for propaganda" in human history with Twitter</a>. "We are not the reservoir of objectivity that I think we were," Koppel lamented in the interview. "We have things appearing on the front page of the New York Times right now that never would have appeared 50 years ago. Analysis, commentary on the front page," Koppel said. "I remember sitting at the breakfast table with my wife during the campaign after the Access Hollywood tape came out and the New York Times, and I will not offend any of you here by using the language but you know exactly what words were used and they were spelled out on the front page of the New York Times." "I turned to my wife and I said the Times is absolutely committed to making sure that this guy does not get elected," he said. "So his perception that the establishment press is out to get him doesn’t mean that great journalism is not being done. It is. But the notion that most of us look upon Donald Trump as being an absolute fiasco, he’s not mistaken in that perception and he’s not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, described themselves as belonging to the Resistance." "We’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States," Kopell said. Watch the full interview: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XapIo184RPo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>