Vargas Was Removed & “Compelled To Put A Positive Face On It” –NCWO Chair

As TVNewser reported on Monday, three prominent women’s organizations are protesting Elizabeth Vargas’ “demotion” from World News Tonight. Media Life Magazine has a Q&A with Susan Scanlan, the chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO). In it, she says:

“Perhaps the most galling aspect of Ms. Vargas’s removal as co-anchor of ‘World News Tonight’ was how she was compelled to put a positive face on it. And consider her consolation prize — a slot on 20/20. That’s exactly where Barbara Walters was pushed via a previous ABC exit strategy. As recently as March, Ms. Vargas told the Dallas Morning News that she’d be off for six months for childbirth and then ‘…everything will go back to being the way it was.'”