ABC News's Westin: We're Competing Against Our Aggregated Selves

ABC News President David Westin offered up an insightful analysis of the challenges facing his network in particular and journalism in general at a Media Institute Awards dinner in Washington Thursday night.

Westin (at least according to his prepared remarks obtained by John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable) dismissed the notion that “we need to start injecting opinion into our reporting” and said quality reporting alone no longer was enough.

“We have to go from a world in which we try to do a better job of covering the same news as everyone else to a world where we’re bringing our audiences news that no one else is,” he said.

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