We are early enough to get the people in the area that we need to get.
We're not shying away from it.
TV people are quite aggressively ambitious, and there are probably 10 people here who really want that job and who feel like it should be theirs. But I have to say – with one or two exceptions – they were all very, very sensitive to not look like vultures.
In any situation you're a human first and then a journalist. You can't stand by when people are suffering and not do something about it.
You can't talk enough. You can't communicate enough. It makes people feel that Peter may be gone and Bob may be hurt, but there are managers who are still steering the ship. They want to know that the organization is not in free-fall.
You try not to become part of the story, but you're a human being first, a journalist second.
The morning show is a family. And anything you do to disrupt that family can have consequences. So it's complicated, sure. Any decision we make is going to have a far-reaching impact on the organization.
We're not in a tremendous hurry. We have such depth here that we can keep this regime going for some time while we figure out what the best thing to do is.
We're not shying away from it. I just don't think we've seen that much.
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