Tom Keene

This goes back a few decades.

Sir Howard, let me ask a delicate question of the United Kingdom.

The present beleaguered and resigned leader of the BBC is perceived as a marketing guy.

You were in the New York Times talking about this.

How does the BBC get back to the intensity you're speaking about?

Do they have to find a world-class journalist to drive forward?

Well, I...

Look, Sir Howard, just one final question, if we could, on the BBC, and we must turn to so much going on in Paul Sweeney's world in New York as well.

And talking to our Eric Larson off our desk on Queen Victoria Street, and looking at the litigation here as well, how will that play out in the United Kingdom?

Inform our American audience.

of how a lawsuit in London is different than a lawsuit wherever in the United States?

I'm not sure I really understand that question.

Well, I mean, the litigation is going to be in the United Kingdom.

How is it different there if the president sues the BBC than it would be here?

Sir Howard Stringer with us, so thrilled to have him with us this morning.

Let me migrate, Sir Howard, to the United States and ask a question that so many will resonate with so much of our listeners and viewers.

Could Dan Rather do the news today?

Does Dan Rather what?

Could he do the news today?

Could Dan Rather grind out his leadership in news off the desk of CBS as he did years ago?