Paul Slavin Quotes (10 Quotes)

This is a perfect opportunity to assess, reassess, explore. We may end up putting on the exact same program that we're putting on now, but we will certainly take this as an opportunity to look at a lot of different techniques or technologies or editorial ways of doing the evening news.

I think we were all taken aback by the impact that Peter's illness and death had on the broader organization. As much as we knew Peter was stitched into the fabric of ABC News, I don't think we understood the extent of it.

We are committed to the West Coast edition of 'World News Tonight,' but we are having trouble at this point fulfilling it as fully as we would have wished or as fully as we had expected.

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.

The whole thing has just been bad and difficult on the organization. Some people wonder what kind of cloud we're living under.

Now, to go on an embed, they would have to have my approval. I have never encountered anything like Iraq before, as far as reporting difficulty.

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.

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.

Security is of great concern to us. It's something we are assessing daily. The larger your footprint, the more dangerous it is.

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.