Ifill, On Not Getting “Meet” Gig

This is like the Ambitious TV Anchor’s version of a “non-denial denial” (from a washingtonpost.com online chat):

Fairfax, Va.: Did you want the Meet the Press job? What do you feel about David Gregory as the new moderator?

Gwen Ifill: I hope David will love his new job as much as I love mine.

Gwen also chimed in on Jay Carney’s new gig:

Washington, D.C.: What do you think about Time’s Jay Carney going over to the administration to work for Biden? Linda Douglass “crossed over” to go work for Obama. What’s she going to do in the new White House? And why do major news figures like these two leave journalism for political jobs?

Gwen Ifill: I wouldn’t be too quick to lump everyone’s ambitions and callings together with one glib explanation. There has always been crossover — more often the other way. Rememeber, Diane Sawyer worked in the Nixon White House. Pierre Salinger. William Safire. I could go on.

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