“We Need To Do This Again”

Quoting this morning’s New York Times:

“Charles Gibson, the co-anchor of Good Morning America, and David Westin, the president of ABC News, had long been scheduled to have lunch last Monday in Mr. Westin’s plasma-screened office five floors above West 66th Street in Manhattan.

But the agenda for that meeting changed radically on Sunday, when Bob Woodruff, the new co-anchor of World News Tonight who, along with Elizabeth Vargas, had been given the job only after Mr. Westin would not meet Mr. Gibson’s request for a three-year term — was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

As Mr. Gibson recalled in an interview yesterday, Mr. Westin had come to their luncheon armed with a simple proposal: ‘We need to do this again’…

‘There is no answer to that but, ‘Yeah, sure,’ ‘ Mr. Gibson said yesterday. ‘I was doing it before. They gave the job to Bob and Elizabeth. Then back you come. I can see the viewer might be a bit confused about what’s going on. But you just do it.'”