They realized that they were losing credibility by being too tabloid.

This is someone who cares about what the future of his organization will look like and who will represent it. He can’t go back on this plan.

It’s about time the morning shows got caught for making journalistic misjudgments.

It’s not too much. He’s not a household [name]… but it’s a really vivid way to dramatize the truth of an underlying story – the story of how dangerous Iraq is, and that’s an important...

For the time being, they can’t do anything other than to act as if he was on sick leave.

If that’s the way you’re going to be growing your audience in the future, by innovating in terms of what medium you’re going to be using, I don’t see that hiring a celebrity broadcaster is...

Generally speaking, it’s the wave of the future. But the future will not arrive on November 7. This is a stepping stone for the future.

She hasn’t done hard news for years, but I’m absolutely confident she knows how. The question is: Does she want to do it? I don’t think she does.

There was a time with broadcast television’s economic model when it made a lot of sense to spend a lot of money on celebrity journalists. But now, we’re in an era of media fragmentation, which...

They had her flying around with the Thunderbirds, and obviously that was a high-profile story for her, but that’s not the kind of thing that’s going to turn heads.

Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position.

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren’t hiring her because she’s a superstar.

After a slow start in the first week, The Early Show has offered the heaviest coverage in the last two weeks.

I can’t see how that would be an improvement. In her heart of hearts, I think she wants to be a serious journalist. And, there’s no room for serious journalism in the ‘Oprah’ hour.

If they were going to get more they were going to get it by now.

There’s no reason why CBS News can’t be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don’t do it by saying the future lies in television.

This is a celebrity story.

They have always been very careful to groom replacements in-house, teach them the house style and basically have them fit into the ongoing mechanism that exists already.

The only place I’ve seen an equivalent velocity would be on the tabloid entertainment shows.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

Matt has really blossomed. He?s come into his own. I think Matt can carry the show while they break in a new co-host.

[Shapiro] ran a holding operation and was never able to put his mark on NBC News, … NBC News hasn’t fallen apart under him, but it hasn’t been forward-looking or innovative.

She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. It’s an awful lot of money you’re spending on her, so just to break even you’ve got to increase your audience by a significant amount.

CBS News has already righted itself…It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

There have always been a few of these stories that had a special thing about them,

She hasn’t got any track record in the evening. She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts.

Being the lead face of a network news division is still the Holy Grail of broadcast journalism.

The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good...

A few hotheads went overboard on this, but not the media as a whole.

Basically what it shows is that NBC is not confident that Matt Lauer can carry the show in the short term until a new partner gets up to speed.

I don’t think she’s got many great skills as an interviewer, but she is really good, coming from ESPN, at thinking on her feet and reacting to images, … She brings that sporting background of...

He is to ABC what Bob Schieffer is to CBS, someone who has been in the shadow of the main anchor for years, and fully qualified to step in.