From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away for one more week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

So the fallout from Brexit was marked by plunging.

Plunging markets, plunging pound, plunging politicians.

Among them, Prime Minister David Cameron.

He ran on the promise of a referendum on whether to leave the EU, politicians, among them Prime Minister David Cameron.

He ran on the promise of a referendum on whether to leave the EU, assuming it would lose,

and then fell on his own sword.

The British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path.

And as such, I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.

Boris Johnson, columnist and ex-mare of London, led a fire and brinstone campaign for Brexit,

and the Brits assumed he'd ride his win to 10 Downing Street.

But on Thursday, he bowed out after his erstwhile ally, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, flatly stated that Boris wasn't up to the job. No, said Gove reluctantly. It had to fall to someone else.

To Gove, in fact, poor Boris.

My friends, you who have waited faithfully for the punchline of this speech, that having consulted

colleagues and in view of the circumstances of Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot

be more.

Now a little more on Johnson.

In 1989, after being fired from the Times of London for fabricating a quote,

the Daily Telegraph sent him to gray old Brussels to cover the dull old EU. Martin Fletcher, a writer and former foreign correspondent for the Times of London,

held a similar post in Brussels a few years later.

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