Mike Pesca

What I do believe is she does not understand how the television network works.

She may very well want to change how network television works and how news gathering works.

God bless her.

OK, I've certainly had my share of inexperience.

I dealt with my share of inexperienced news executives.

The ones that came in and experienced, who were good, actually spent time trying to get to know parts of the news division that they knew themselves they wanted to get rid of, which you actually have to try to work and figure out how they work.

The bad news executives that I dealt with, and I had quite a few of them,

I would say about half figured it out the right way and half figured it out the wrong way.

About half of them came in thinking they already knew how to do this and they were going to come and they were there to break eggs and they weren't going to bother worrying about institutional norms, etc.

Um, but you're going to get pushback, right?

You're going to get resistance when you have a lot of, particularly at a broadcast news network where there's a lot of really smart, talented people who frankly probably would be more qualified to run the news division, but they're on air personalities.

Uh,

And they're not just to be treated like actors in a sitcom.

And there's sort of two types of news executives I came across.

There was the news executive that assumed people that were on air just read the reporting of other people's work.

And then there were those that actually respected the fact that the people that could narrate a story could also work a story behind the scenes as well.

And so...

This rings of somebody who just didn't fully understand how the system worked.

Now, this is where you cannot discount the outside atmosphere that was developing over the last month.

You had President Trump twice complain about 60 Minutes pieces that he didn't like.