Media Outlet / Personality: Disney/Nightline

Considered a soft and hard news program that airs late at night five times a week. The format changed after anchor Ted Koppel left in 2005. It is now hosted by three anchors with a multi-topic format.


Elections/2008 Media Advisory: More Than a Two-Person Race: Corporate media largely ignore other presidential candidates (10/21/08)

Extra!: Sidebar: FAIR’s Original 1990 NewsHour Study (September/October 2006) By Steve Rendall and Julie Hollar

Activism Update: Brian Ross "Completely Aware" of WMD Context: So why weren't ABC viewers allowed to know? (3/3/06)

Action Alert: Missing From ABC's WMD "Scoop": Star defector Hussein Kamel said weapons were destroyed (2/17/06)

Extra!: Media Lick the Hand That Feeds Them: Does Wal-Mart’s money buy more than ads? (November/December 2005) By Peter Hart and Janine Jackson

Media Advisory: Missing the Evidence on Missing Explosives: Reports ignore videotapes that debunk administration claims (10/29/04)

Press Release: Nightline: Ad Profits Overshadowing Journalism? (3/1/02)

Action Alert: Nightline Responds on One-Sided China Panel (5/31/00)

Action Alert: On Eve of China Vote, Nightline Airs Only One Side (5/24/00)

Action Alert: WTO: The Whole World Is Watching-- Except Ted Koppel (12/3/99)

Media Advisory: Slanted Sources in NewsHour and Nightline Kosovo Coverage (5/5/99)

Action Alert: NATO's "Astonishing" Radioactive Weapons (4/13/99)

Extra!: Criminal Communities: 'Racial dualism' puts white supremacy in the media crime frame (January/February 1998) By Mikal Muharrar

Extra!: Koppel Copped Out at Convention (Update October 1996) By Jim Naureckas

Extra!: Is Murder Moral?: Executive Director's Column (September/October 1994) By Jeff Cohen

Extra!: A Couple of Mentions of Single-Payer (September/October 1994)

Extra!: Koppel's "Tough Question": Should Doctors Be Killed? (Update February 1994)

Press Release: All the Usual Suspects: MacNeil/Lehrer and Nightline: FAIR Issues New Study on PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer and ABC's Nightline (5/21/90)

Press Release: Are You on the Nightline Guest List? (2/6/89)



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