ratesings? let s figure out who makessi th decisions and put policies in place so there is some context. i think you re rht in that we spend the media spends so much more time on this issue, but it also had become an ternational event in can people were rioting and no, no, i don t believe hold on. [ all talking at once ] there was a new york times story in the last week of august, it still didn t get much action until the patraeus comment in the wall street journal but i still think you have a problem here of trying to keep a lid on some i think in terms of proportionality it shouldn t get this attention. but i m saying no matter what you would decide if you were running cnn, howie, i don t think it would have had a big pact on keeping this guy off the screen. this crazy guy off the screen. agreement, this agreement to no to cover it has dangerous potential. we did go through this befwsore with every news organization in america agreed ton show the allow carto
what is the method of transmission by which an act in florida become a riot in kabul? that is not a spontaneous process. there are people in afghanistan who do this and make a point of it. that s what happened with the danish cartoons. let s cover that transmission, though, and the malicious people interested in running it. you did write about the economic portion. i did. from mother joan, and your headline was more drama, obama. my point of you re a theater critic, you didn t like the fact that he den get wound up when talking about the onomy. what iwe said was he showed lot of passion and conviction, sica president has to do to be successful. when he talked not so much about thabe pastor but talking about e islamic center d religious freedom. i thought that was wonderful. i made the point that when he talks about the economy and trying to connect andhi convinc people that his policies are best, didn t have much passion. i think that is a problem for any politician.
yes, of course. that is part of the job. and that s probably the best t publicized part of the job. the harder part itan seems to m and david was terrific at that. the harder part is to innovate while also managing the business. to dave s point, david certainly foresanew a future where news consumers would not be looking to network programming as itow exists for their prime resource of news or even a regular source of news. and all news leaders now have to figure out how to engage a generation that s that is completely different habits of news companies and no longer looking to news authorities. the model that moved from one to many, the classic voice of god model to one of many. a though you suited up for a medieval joust and found yourself in a hockey game. and andrew, you have to do this with in abc s case, 25% less staff. in other words, fewer bodies, and yet you ve got to be more crtive at a time when the particularly younger people are watching less television news. true,
and we are saying today we are seeing today riots in kabul, riots in afghanistan that reaten our young men and women in uniform. lauren asurn, i was relieved that the pastor didn t dominate the news conference, it of mostly about the economy. but that became the story, what everyone wrote and talked about the next day. how wie, gosh, why didn t yo lead this show with the economics and president obama as press because it s got inshort shift from our colleagues in the media business. i m saying, here we are talking about him, and you re ha,ppy he yidn t dominate it, yt he did. yet you didn t lead with the economic policy that president obama lid out. let me protect howie for a second of the percent of the issue was i was at the presser, and the president didn t say anything new about his economic pocies. i mean, i think a should have a continuum discussion about what go ahead, david. the president also dropped a hint of a way the story a been seriously undercovered, wh
howie, that s not how you do show that s going to be successful. he s all over the place. i think he s just t kind of guy who s kind of a blustery phony, who comes on and just blows his way into the o room. i ll reserve judgment on that. by the way, there s no law in television againsteing a hot dog. emily, how d piers morgan from his tabloid years to being a pretty successful tv celebty in britain? well, i think that was something of a mystery to all of us, actually, even to pier as an editor. after he was sacked from the mirror, he had a very unsuccessful business venture for a short time, actual wchith rupert murdoch s son-in-law. an interesting, small fact here. and then he sort of don reemerg. don t forget that because as a tabloid editor in britain he would know l the studio bosses very well. he did have a hotline to all the top celebrities in britain. and he does have a certain sort of charismatic two side to piers morgan. one is slightly petulant,