Posted on 08/09/2005 6:04:38 AM PDT by bmweezer
When news of Peter Jennings death reached the masses yesterday morning, most were surprised and shocked, even though Jennings hadn't been on the air for four months, and was fighting incurable lung cancer. With Jenning's death, U.S. viewers are faced with the prospect of having neither Jennings, nor Tom Brokaw, nor Dan Rather sitting in a evening news anchor desk, for the first time since 1981.
Why the fuss? Culturally, Jennings death is big news, no matter what one thought of the anchor's opinions or approach. Likely a liberal, Jennings was 'there' for us nonetheless covering the news that affected our lives. Before the advent of Fox News and the other cable news networks, Jennings like his two counterparts on the other networks was where one went when big news happened. The Challenger disaster, Reagan's victory, the end of the Cold War, Jennings was there and so were we.
Jennings death is an end of a era and for those of us thirty or over, its just another sign that lives moves forward - one way or another.
"likely a Liberal"
Likely...come on ..he was a flaming Liberal....
MSM, on the other hand, couldn't stop making catty comments during Ronald Reagan's funeral.
"Culturally, Jennings death is big news"
Not really. Watergate elevated journalists to a status they didn't deserve. And Jennings was just an anchor. I'm sorry he died, but lets not make a big deal of it.
Please, let's leave the use of that disgusting term "the masses" to the leftist social engineering Marxists and their repulsive ilk.
I think it is ever so much less elitist, and therefore much more appropriate, for those of us who believe in liberty to instead use terms like: "people," "the people," "We the People," "average people," "most people," etc.
"Masses" carries with it an attitude of contempt for real flesh and blood human beings that I find downright cold-blooded.
What's next? Listening to Republicans use terms like "bourgeois"?
/rant.
However, Jennings was just another of the 60's Liberals that did and have done their damnest to harm this country. As is the case with Jennings they are a dying breed that will go into the history books largely unlamented by future generations.
Three CFR elitist creeps off the airwaves is a very positive thing.
He has worked in every European nation that once was behind the Iron Curtain. He was there when the independent political movement Solidarity was born in a Polish shipyard, and again when Poland's communist leaders were forced from power. And he was in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and throughout the Soviet Union to record first the repression of communism and then its demise. He was one of the first reporters to go to Vietnam in the 1960s, and went back to the killing fields of Cambodia in the 1980s to remind Americans that, unless they did something, the terror would return."
Jennings saw the most significant events in the evolution of freedom and liberty unfold before his own eyes, yet he remained naively subservient to socialist thought fed to him by his elitist community in New York journalism circles. Though, he was little more than a pretty dupe, may he rest in peace.
we have a serious need to rethink what's important in this country. What's all the damn fuss?
"A classy announcement. That's what the GOP does when someone dies. MSM, on the other hand, couldn't stop making catty comments during Ronald Reagan's funeral."
I gotta admit, choking the comments down is about to give me a hernia.
The way leftists cover the news profoundly affects out lives, and for the worse. The Rathergate "fake but accurate" conceit was the left's most recent outrageous cynical attempt to create and manipulate history, and certainly not its last.
By the way he reported it, Jennings manufactured news with the worst of them. Although I don't cheer his death as a man, I also have no hope that his passing will change the left-wing media either He was just one voice. The left has many, many more just like him in reserve.
As far as I'm concerned, good riddence to bad rubbish. It's to bad that even with the "big three" gone we still can't just get the news. We still have to filter it to get what is really happening.
Likely a liberal? Obviously you didn't spend any time watching ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. If you did there would be no question in your mind ... let me assure you.
(one is supposed to celebrate the life of someone when he passes away, not their death..)
I agree with the British term "News Readers" -- that's all these people do - read a teleprompter. The big boys get all puffed up about their status and, like Jennings, put a sarcastic or quizzical inflection on what conservatives say or do. Or, like Blather, they try to inject themselves into the story. "See, I'm standing here with Fidel!! Oh, boy, I'm so important!"
Having said that, although I was no fan of Jennings, I don't wish him or any of the others any harm. I truly hope that Jennings got his heart right before he passed on, and I hope that his family has happy memories of him.
Why waste the time?
I'm sorry he had to go in this way. I don't really wish it on anyone.
However, Jennings was just another of the 60's Liberals that did and have done their damnest to harm this country. As is the case with Jennings they are a dying breed that will go into the history books largely unlamented by future generations.
Good one Marine. The only difference i have about it all is "why couldn't it have happened 20 years ago?"
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