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...confused minutes after the flummoxing, unsummarized decision came down, its meaning depended on what network you were watching. On MSNBC, Gore was toast. On CNN and Fox, he still had a chance. ABC's Jackie Judd and Jeffrey Toobin, asked for their instant read by Peter Jennings, reacted as if served a baked rat. ("I'm going to turn it over to Jeffrey Toobin," she offered; "I was hoping to turn it over to Jackie," he demurred.) NBC's tag team of Dan Abrams and Pete Williams flipped madly through the opinions, looking with their topcoats, windswept hair and booklets...
...Gore, those around him say, the setbacks stiffened his resolve even more than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...
...ironically, his case would not have had nearly as much resonance if Time Warner had not committed what one of its own executives calls "the stupidest business decision of the year." On May 1, after months of wrangling with Disney over a new retransmission contract for Disney's ABC television stations, Time Warner Cable shut the network off its system in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles...
While Washington weighed the merger's fate, AOL and Time Warner confidently, or arrogantly, carried on one of history's most extensive premerger integration efforts. The same week that the ABC controversy erupted, Levin and Case announced a new corporate structure, with Case as chairman; Levin as CEO; and Parsons and Robert Pittman, a veteran of AOL (and Time Warner), as co-chief operating officers...
Diane Sawyer gets sprayed with Silly String by Elian Gonzalez; Leonardo DiCaprio interviews President Bill Clinton for ABC...