Ted Koppel returns to Nightline for its 40th anniversary, warns of coronavirus misinformation

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Koppel appeared on Nightline to mark the 40th anniversary of the ABC News news program that he launched on March 24, 1980 amid the Iran hostage crisis. “It’s time more than ever in this country to come to the realization that what we need more than anything else, is reliable, credible journalists,” Koppel told co-anchor Juju Chang. “The fact that so much information is being conveyed by people who have no background in journalism whatsoever but do have the ability through the internet to communicate absolute nonsense and sometimes damaging nonsense over the internet. This is a time when rather than questioning the credibility of the media, we need to reinforce it.”