We've Had A Chance To Be Seen

You Know, The Market Was Down Yesterday... My First Thought When I Heard-just On A Personal Basis, When I Heard There Had Been This Attack And I Saw The Futures This Morning, Which Were Really In The Tank, I Thought, Time To Buy.

We Had A Couple Of Minor Coups That Made A Big Difference. We Snared Away From A Competitor A Correspondent Already On The Ground In Afghanistan. That Was An Enormous Help To Us, Because There We Were.

Msnbc Got Some Very Good People. They've Got A Good-looking Set. All They're First-class. Somewhere Along The Way, They Kind Of Lost Their Identity As A News Channel, And They Started Doing A Lot Of Other Sort Of Magazine-type Programming.

You Have To Have Pace, You Have To Have High Production Values, You Have To Have Interesting Graphics, And You Have To Have Attractive People - Cnn Could Afford Not To Be So Obedient To Those Commands, And For A Long Time, It Wasn't.

We've Had A Series Of Major News Stories That Have Brought In Viewers Who Either Were Sampling To See What Else Was Available Or Were Normal News Watchers. The Florida Recount And The End Of The Election Was A Huge Development. And Then 9/11 Came Along.