The anchoring job of the evening news is still the most prestigious job in American journalism, certainly in television journalism. It is the pinnacle.

My sense is that her identity has been so associated with the morning news format that it will be difficult for her to make that transition and have the same kind of dominance that she enjoys in the morning.

There will be an effect for the Globe. Many readers will not distinguish between administrative personnel mistakes and mistakes by journalists, and that means in the short run they will lose some readership.

I don't think the formula for the press to recover its lost credibility is getting up on a soapbox and making speeches.

If they keep Charlie in the morning, what they're saying is, we don't want to run the risk. If they take Charlie and put him in 'World News Tonight,' that's a statement that the flagship show is still mightily important.