Peter Jennings, ABC's "elephant in the control room"

Jacques Steinberg has a nice article today about how ABC News is faring as it moves forward in Peter Jennings‘ absence. At its center is Jon Banner, exec producer of “World News Tonight” and its web versopm, “World News Now”). Banner, a 16-year vet of ABC news, had been Jennings’ exec producer from June 2003 and together they had been pushing hard to put Jennings in the lead over NBC’s Brian Williams — until Jennings got sick.