when i was there, there was a very good reputation and we would often feed stories to holly brinkley.nd one of the officers of nbc came out. they going to go from 15 minute to half an hour. they were worried they would not be able to fill that half hour so they were asking the affiliate's to keep their eye on stories. first, appeared on holly brinkley one of the flying melindas fell off of a swing bar at the circus in omaha and died and one of the photographers got a picture and i was on the air with -- >> with so many networks available and so many ways of getting information is network news still relevant? .. safe. i thought i would be adventurous. i thought i would get the network to oversee the world. it was very excited the idea that you could, you know, get on a plane and fly somewhere to be on air. i went to atlanta right at the heights of the civil rights movement. that's when nbc picked-up and sent me to california. >> by the time news comes to anchors, it is old news now. it's already being "the huffington post." it's already on the huffington places. >> it's like -- dan pet