The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.