“The future anchors” of World News Tonight “will be Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas,” Verne Gay declares in Newsday. “While cautioning that nothing’s official yet, knowledgeable observers suggest that it’s all over except for the wording of the press release. Vargas will become the first female anchor of a weeknight newscast since Connie Chung was paired with Dan Rather at CBS from 1993 to 1995.” More…
> Update: 12pm: “What Verne Gay doesn’t know about ABC News could fit in…well, in a column like the one he wrote today,” an e-mailer says. “So before everyone wonders if Verne knows something the rest of us don’t, remember folks, its Verne’s opinion, not a reported story.”
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