From the Wall Street Journal, by Dow Jones Newswires:
"The presidents of the three major U.S. TV network news divisions put aside their rivalries for one day, gathering at a forum to acknowledge that the days when people patiently waited to tune into their evening newscasts have passed.
"There is an explosion in the number of news and quasi-news outlets and it goes into the Internet, it goes into broadband, streaming video, it's now on cell phones ... and those of us in network news have to recognize that," said David Westin of ABC News, which is part of The Walt Disney Co. (DIS)"It's very different from the comfortable oligopoly that prevailed at the beginning of broadcast news, where you had networks with enormous market share," Heyward said. "I think that's to the public benefit. It puts more pressure on us to be excellent."
On Iraq, the three said that, in retrospect, they should have more aggressively questioned the Bush administration's grounds for invading Iraq in the spring of 2003.
"Simply stated, we let down the American people on weapons of mass destruction, and I sincerely regret that," Westin said."















