Don’t Forget About Diane

“It’s checkmate for Diane Sawyer. The game is over,” David Blum says in today’s NY Sun.

“Ever since the mid-1980s, when she shot to superstardom as the first woman on ’60 Minutes’ and the first glamour icon in television news, it was assumed that Ms. Sawyer would one day be the first woman to anchor a network nightly newscast.”

But now, with Katie Couric moving to CBS and Elizabeth Vargas apparently still ABC’s choice for WNT, Sawyer is a “casualty of war,” Blum writes.

“…But of course it is way too early to count Ms. Sawyer out; she may have lost this game, but she’ll find another one she can win. For the moment, she may have been forced into retreat, but no one can reasonably expect her to disappear forever from the broadcast limelight. She remains too ambitious and too blond…”