On Oct. 12, Good Morning America aired the first part of Diane Sawyer’s exclusive interview with a twitching, sweaty, contrite Mel Gibson—by far the biggest of this fall’s big gets—beginning at 7:30 a.m. The next day, the news was devastating: Early ratings reports had the Today show beating Good Morning America by 1.5 million viewers, Read More
As of Memorial Day, Charlie Gibson will finally, officially and for the foreseeable future be the sole anchor of World News Tonight.
On May 23, ABC News president David Westin announced that he was undoing everything he had done this past November when he appointed the youthful duo of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff as Read More
At a Nightline staff meeting last week in Washington, ABC News correspondent John Donvan raised the question that was haunting the network news department: “What exactly did John do wrong?”
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Mr. Donvan, who had been out of town, meant it as a factual question to get himself up to speed. He was Read More
At a Nightline staff meeting last week in Washington, ABC News correspondent John Donvan raised the question that was haunting the network news department: “What exactly did John do wrong?”
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Mr. Donvan, who had been out of town, meant it as a factual question to get himself up to speed. He was referring to Read More
In a meeting with reporters in Los Angeles last January, CBS president Leslie Moonves made some suggestions—with a flippancy he now seems to regret—for how his network might improve its third-ranking evening newscast: longer narrative pieces, higher production values, no “voice-of-God single-anchor” format, and a sense of humor or optimism about the news, without which Read More
“It appeared to be a normal day on Good Morning America until Charlie Gibson, who waited his whole life for something to happen to him, something exciting, found his calm exterior shattered by a voice from beyond.”
That voice—and the little monologue above—belonged to Brenda Strong, the actress who plays Mary Alice Young, the dead Read More
