Gossip reporter Roger Friedman, writing at FoxNews.com, says "Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer may finally have persuaded the suits at ABC that she's the right choice to occupy the anchor
chair at "World News Tonight." Friedman points out that the estimable Sawyer clearly was not the network's first choice. When co-anchor Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq, ABC News first
asked Charles Gibson to assume fill-in duties. He didn't like the deal he was offered and so took a pass. With Elizabeth Vargas pregnant and assumed to be preparing to take an extended break from her
"World News Tonight" role, there's reason to believe that Diane Sawyer may get a chance to fly solo in the job she's wanted for a long time. "According to what I've been told," writes Friedman,
"Diane and ABC are so desperate to steal Katie Couric's thunder [Couric remains a candidate to take over the anchor role at the "CBS Evening News"] that they will get her in the anchor chair very
quickly. Katie is still under contract to NBC, and can't even begin negotiations until May 15. By that time, Diane--who's been rotating with Gibson--could be settled in on a permanent basis."
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