George Stephanopoulos: My Colleagues Worried If I Could Be 'Fair'

Scott Whitlock | March 6, 2015
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos admitted on Tuesday that, when he first started, even his fellow colleagues at ABC News wondered if he could be objective. Talking to Alec Baldwin for the actor's radio show Here's The Thing, he recounted how, in 1997, Ted Koppel "came to my office and looked me in the eye and asked me why I'm here and if I really felt I could, you know, do the job, be fair and be objective."  Before joining the network, Stephanopoulos was a high profile operative Democratic operative, working for Bill Clinton, among others. Asked if those at ABC questioned whether he could be fair, Stephanopoulos replied, "Oh, definitely." 

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