ABC News too gossipy?

From New York magazine via Poynter:

Ben Sherwood, boss of the Disney/ABC Television Group, oversees the whole broadcast network and properties like the Disney Channels and A&E. He's an iconoclastic, rich kid former Rhodes Scholar who's left the corporate track several times only to return to greater success. Brilliant, aggressive, empathetic and not disinclined with "using the press to pummel the competition," like NBC's "Today," he's had huge success even as he's overseen a workplace at ABC News that's "toxically gossipy," says CNN's Chris Cuomo, who's worked at ABC, CNBC, MSNBC and Fox. A long opus suggests he may be on track to run all of Disney one day, even if some former news stalwarts, like Ted Koppel, apparently cringe over his populist ways with content. They're working. (New York)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/rise-of-ben-sherwood-abc.html