Reports on the announcement published in the "New York Post" and in Davis's hometown paper the "Philadelphia Inquirer" remarked on the earlier "bad press" in 2005, with the "Post" commenting, "Apparently, that 'new creative direction' has done an about-face," and the "Inquirer" quoting a network vice president who "doesn't know the specifics behind the perky Davis's firing, but called it 'shortsightedness.'"