Godwin’s Country

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Hi, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email on the inner workings of American media. Tonight, we go inside ABC News, where the tabloid saga of “Amy and T.J.,” and the network’s handling of it, has reignited some internal frustrations with Kim Godwin’s leadership.

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Godwin’s Country

ABC News’s Kim Godwin, enduring a hellish year in the industry, gets her turn in the TV news barrel.

DYLAN BYERS

When Bob Iger talks about managing the Walt Disney brand, he speaks in a financial argot of deposits and withdrawals—a worldview he borrowed from his late friend, Steve Jobs. A smart strategic acquisition, a highly rated show, a good bit of press: these are “brand deposits.” A box office flop, a misguided marketing campaign, a public controversy: these are “brand withdrawals.” It is fair to assume that when the recently re-installed chairman and C.E.O. of Disney saw the front page of the New York Post, last Thursday, broadcasting an extramarital affair between two ABC News anchors under the headline “Good Moaning America,” a withdrawal had been made...

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