I think we were all taken aback by the impact that Peter's illness and death had on the broader organization. As much as we knew Peter was stitched into the fabric of ABC News, I don't think we understood the extent of it. |
If something is working, generally speaking, we don't interfere with it. As long as Terry was interested, that was easy. |
In any situation you're a human first and then a journalist. You can't stand by when people are suffering and not do something about it. |
Now, to go on an embed, they would have to have my approval. I have never encountered anything like Iraq before, as far as reporting difficulty. |
Security is of great concern to us. It's something we are assessing daily. The larger your footprint, the more dangerous it is. |
The morning show is a family. And anything you do to disrupt that family can have consequences. So it's complicated, sure. Any decision we make is going to have a far-reaching impact on the organization. |
The whole thing has just been bad and difficult on the organization. Some people wonder what kind of cloud we're living under. |
There are stories that you don't have to be first on. |
This is a perfect opportunity to assess, reassess, explore. We may end up putting on the exact same program that we're putting on now, but we will certainly take this as an opportunity to look at a lot of different techniques or technologies or editorial ways of doing the evening news. |
TV people are quite aggressively ambitious, and there are probably 10 people here who really want that job and who feel like it should be theirs. But I have to say – with one or two exceptions – they were all very, very sensitive to not look like vultures. |
We are committed to the West Coast edition of 'World News Tonight,' but we are having trouble at this point fulfilling it as fully as we would have wished or as fully as we had expected. |
We are early enough to get the people in the area that we need to get. |
We're not in a tremendous hurry. We have such depth here that we can keep this regime going for some time while we figure out what the best thing to do is. |
We're not shying away from it, |
We're not shying away from it. I just don't think we've seen that much. |