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NEW YORK – David Westin may have had friction with Disney/ABC President Anne Sweeney, but things had been tense with Disney CEO Bob Iger for years. Peter Lauria and Lloyd Grove go inside his resignation. David Westin’s departure from the helm of ABC News after 13 years...

It seems that congressional criticism about the fairness of the ABC News Obamacare show tonight has struck a nerve in the president of that organization, David Westin to such an extent that he has responded via letter in a less than pleased manner. What sparked this testy reaction was a letter signed by 40 members of Congress that was sent yesterday by the Congressional Media Fairness Caucus to ABC News president, David Westin, criticizing the fairness of the health care special: Dear Mr. Westin,Health care reform is an extemely complex issue involving one of the largest sectors of the economy....

ABC News President David Westin warned against the proliferation of opinion commentary in the news media at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday night. “The more time we express our opinions, the less time we have to talk about the facts,” Westin said. “Unfortunately, opinion is driving out facts too often in most of what we see on television today.” In a speech entitled “Is Network News Obsolete?” Westin argued that network news is far from dead but that the networks must adapt to changes in media. Westin pointed to the rise of alternative news sources,...

ABC News' president has cautioned reporters that their mission in reporting on the CBS document story is not to stick it to a competitor. ABC is hot on the story, breaking ground by unearthing a document examiner who warned a CBS producer of the Bush records’ questionable status, but nobody's gloating. In a memo sent last week, ABC News President David Westin issued a directive for covering the allegedly forged memos cited on 60 Minutes. “We need to stick as close to the facts and what we know about them as possible,” he wrote, because, noting, ABC could be in...

Filed at 6:41 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC's owners and ``Nightline'' host Ted Koppel have reached a detente of sorts, with the network agreeing to keep the late-night news show in its time slot for at least two more years. Robert Iger, president of ABC parent Walt Disney Co., issued a statement Monday promising to ``renew and reaffirm our support for `Nightline,' one of the network's signature programs.'' The two decade-old news program was threatened by ABC's strong bid to lure David Letterman. His talk show would have supplanted ``Nightline'' in the 11:35 p.m. time slot, but Letterman...