Moldea v. New York Times, Part 4 of 19

Combat on Nightline

            On September 11—the day after the 1989 NFL regular season began—Richard Harris of Nightline called just before 11:00 A.M. and informed me that our program had been bumped because anchor Ted Koppel had arranged to interview Russian leader Boris Yeltsin.

            Then, at 7:05 that night, Tracy Day, a Nightline producer, called and said that…