They want to know in advance what I will say on the air. I could hear it in their voices over the telephone. Television is so shallow.
Television is arrogant, too.
The rumor at ABC-TV, in fact, is that the buyer will be Yahoo. I'm not making a specific prediction here because I can't see Michael Eisner accepting a second banana role to anyone, but it wouldn't surprise me if Disney was soon part of some deal involving several parties, perhaps including Yahoo. They were looking for me to get excited about the deal and to see it in terms of corporate synergy and creating the prototypical media company for the Internet century. Instead, I saw it as AOL buying an insurance policy against the failure of the so-called Internet century. AOL is on a roll.