The Long View

From conference-call intercept, June 22, 2008. Four persons on the call: J. Immelt, General Electric chairman; Steve Capus, NBC News president; Jeff Zucker, NBC/Universal president and CEO; and Ben Silverman, NBC Television cochairman of entertainment.

STEVE CAPUS: . . . [unintelligible] . . . the real problem is, you know, what we do after Brokaw. Who do we have that could even come close to filling Tim Russert’s shoes?

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From conference-call intercept, June 22, 2008. Four persons on the call: J. Immelt, General Electric chairman; Steve Capus, NBC News president; Jeff Zucker, NBC/Universal president and CEO; and Ben Silverman, NBC Television cochairman of entertainment.

STEVE CAPUS: . . . [unintelligible] . . . the real problem is, you know, what we do after Brokaw. Who do we have that could even come close to filling Tim Russert’s shoes?