Ben Sherwood
Ben Sherwood
Ben Sherwoodis a writer, a journalist, and a producer who currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, and the President of Disney-ABC Television Group. Sherwood is the former President of ABC News...
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Robin is a rare life force. She's someone you just want to be around all the time. In the past year, she has played a growing role on the program and this was easiest, most natural, and most obvious decision and transition.
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welcomes contributions from people who find themselves in the middle of news stories (but) would never encourage anyone to take an unnecessary risk.
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We've asked Tony to stay with 'GMA' through the end of November so that he can participate in our 30th anniversary celebrations. He has generously agreed,
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If the competitive spirit leads to making a real difference and to having homes built and roadways cleared and schools started, it's a good thing,
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Millions of people have been evacuated, and an entire region of the country is in danger. This is breaking, dramatic, urgent news, and it's our mission to cover it.
As an author, I know how frustrating it is. There are so many books.
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This feels like a special case and a special instance where action and journalism are consistent ? shining a light and also doing something, rolling up the sleeves.
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...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.
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That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
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Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since
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In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
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How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?
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And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.
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On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.