Word: successor
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...Arledge, after nearly 20 years as news-division president, may not be on the field to guide the team to a comeback. Last week ABC announced that Arledge, 65, will ascend to the newly created post of chairman of the news division. Replacing him as president--and eventual successor--is David Westin, 44, currently president of the television-network group, but a man with no news experience. (Westin will report to Arledge--who previously reported to Westin. Both jobs were described as promotions. Isn't television wonderful...
...some wonder whether the inexperienced Westin will have the skills to manage the news division on a day-to-day basis. (He'll have an even tougher time if executive vice president Friedman, whom Arledge reportedly opposed as his successor, decides to leave.) "I have a passion for news and a respect for what has been done here at ABC News," says Westin. "That doesn't mean I don't have things to learn. But I have Roone, who is the best teacher." He's learned one thing already: how to treat a legend...
That's not exactly the image Beijing is promoting. The official line is that the transition from the Deng era to that of President Jiang Zemin happened years ago and is locked firmly in place: Jiang was Deng's chosen successor, and he has handily gathered up the reins of power. Well, it would not be China or the Communist Party if that were true. Even under the red emperors Mao Zedong and Deng, as with the real emperors of the past, there were constant plots and purges. But Chinese and Western experts do generally agree that none of Jiang...
Stuart Schram, a research associate at the Fairbank Center and professor emeritus at the University of London, expressed concern about the effectiveness of Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin...
...when it comes to news, weather and the like, pull media just doesn't cut it for accuracy and timeliness. If there is still a role for traditional media providers on the Internet, it will lie in a successor to the World Wide Web--on-line push media...