Romenesko

"Reliable Sources"
"It is a cumulative story," says ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson. "It is a story where one day builds on the other. But it is incumbent, I think, upon us to make sure that it's in the broadcast almost every night so that people have a cumulative sense of what's going on." Was the Mark Foley coverage excessive? "I don't think so. I think in the end it was a story about people who have custody, if you will, of children, and their responsibility to those kids, and whether or not the Congress was -- was exercising sufficient oversight in taking care of young people who are in Washington."