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September 5, 2004 -- C onvention footnote: In a week full of openly hostile and sometimes just downright bizarre pronouncements from the talking heads, one particularly nonsensical comment stands out. On Thursday night, ABC anchor Peter Jennings felt the need to explain to viewers that two protestors had been forcibly removed by security officers from the floor of the Republican Convention when they tried to disrupt President Bush's acceptance speech. Jennings seemingly couldn't understand why the Bush-bashers were being escorted out. Weren't they merely exercising their First Amendment rights?

September 5, 2004 -- C onvention footnote: In a week full of openly hostile and sometimes just downright bizarre pronouncements from the talking heads, one particularly nonsensical comment stands out. On Thursday night, ABC anchor Peter Jennings felt the need to explain to viewers that two protestors had been forcibly removed by security officers from the floor of the Republican Convention when they tried to disrupt President Bush's acceptance speech.

Oddest comment of the night: Explaining the removal from the convention hall of two protesters who heckled President Bush, ABC's Peter Jennings was befuddled: "What they could be charged with, other than political expression, I do not know." Jennings made his comment during ABC's post-speech coverage as he filled-in viewers on what caused the commotion during Bush's speech which had prompted the audience to drown out the protesters by chanting "four more years!" I'm sure there are plenty of charges available for people who trespass and then disrupt a private event. Would Jennings be so enamored of "political expression" if...

What’s THE biggest media myth to come out of the Iraq? War and its messy aftermath? Forget Maureen Dowd’s attempt to trash George W. Bush by altering the president’s words. That kind of "journalism" has become just standard operating procedure at the New York Times. (" All the News Fit to Distort") No, for sheer, long-lasting stamina, we nominate the urban legend about the pillaging of Baghdad’s archaeological museum. Remember how it was supposed to have been emptied by looters? It was THE RAPE OF CIVILIZATION! The anguished comments from distinguished archaeologists sounded more like tabloid headlines. The Death of...

The following is a link to program #7 from a 10-part series titled: Ethics in America. The exchange between Mssrs. Jennings & Wallace and several members of the military, including retired General William Westmoreland is very enlightening. The most interesting part begins at 31:00 in to the 60 minute video. Also, check out the reaction of USMC Colonel George M. Connell to Jennings & Wallace at 42:30. This should be required viewing for all Americans. Ethics in America: Under Orders, Under Fire (Part II)This video is available for Windows Media Video (.WMV) only.

A year ago, the Pentagon took what many people considered to be a giant risk when it embedded reporters with U.S. units during the march to Baghdad. Old-timers remembered the acrimonious depths to which military-media relations had fallen in the aftermath of Vietnam. The fact was that for a very long time after that conflict, military members believed in their hearts that reporters were part of the counter-culture trying to "get them." Accordingly, the military limited press access to battlefields for over two decades. The embedding experiment worked — at least for a while. Unfortunately, the media seem to have...

Peter Jennings just did the "Person of the Week" feature on the news. Did anyone else happen to see it? OMG - Nancy Reagan was the "Person of the Week," and Jennings just COULD NOT resist taking his digs. He made references to the White House china thing, then showed the clip from the ranch where Nancy, under her breath, prompted President Reagan on what to say (I don't personally remember that incident), and said other nasty things, as well.It was tasteless, but how typical that the left just cannot stop themselves from acting like morons.

Peter Jennings spikes confirmation of sarin in Iraq. ABC’s World News Tonight on Tuesday had time for stories on how the turn over of authority in Iraq is not as “simple” as President Bush claims, how Iraqis are skeptical about Bush’s promise to tear down the Abu Ghraib prison, with one man wanting to know if there’s a guarantee that Bush “will not torture prisoners in the new prison?”, how U.S. forces in Najaf had damaged “one of the most important Moslem shrines” and how Israeli bulldozing of a Gaza neighborhood had left an old Palestinian woman “scowling the rubble”...

The time has come for all Americans to realize that the Media, which at one time was a form of the check and balances for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. As we have seen recently, Ted Koeppel believes that the use of the American troops who have died in Iraq should be a cornerstone for his new book. The real evil entity is the Walt Disney Corporation that has used the ABC network to be populated with anti-Americans like Peter Jennings, Martha Raddatz, and Ted Koeppel. We all know that John Kerry, an anti American...

This poll asks: I think the Apostle Paul: * explained Jesus' message * changed Jesus' message

I'm not a practicing anything - but I found the Peter Jennings special "Jesus and Paul" extremely distateful. The music was,for the most part,totally inappropriate; as was the "MTV" treatment of venerable images. ( A crucified Christ hopping around on the cross to some sort of "metal" beat ??? ) All that, of course is being aired on another thread,and my purpose here is to seek help in crafting a proper response. I believe, when a media giant,such as ABC,insults and trivializes any religion as baldly as it did last night,there should be a punishment. What I have in mind...

Network has produced another show loaded with liberal theologians and permeated with a sense of unbelief. Peter Jennings is at it again. The "ABC World News Tonight" anchor is the driving force behind Monday night's three-hour network special "Jesus and Paul -- the Word and the Witness." Like "The Search for Jesus," a previous ABC special Jennings shepherded, the new show is filled with "expert" analysis from liberal theologians and carries the underlying worldview of unbelief in Scripture and Jesus' divinity. "Jennings repeatedly refers to 'the Jesus movement' as if it were just another political party or faction," Focus on...

I just saw Petah "Lettuce Roll" Jennings mention the John Kerry intern scandal on ABC World News Tonight.It seems like the lamestream media finally realizes it cannot avoid this story.

<p>Dennis Miller has usually been happy to spray his acerbic wit across the political spectrum, but things will be different on his new CNBC talk program.</p> <p>President Bush is in a mock-free zone.</p> <p>"I like him," Miller explained. "I'm going to give him a pass. I take care of my friends."</p>

Spin Buster Hogging the Spotlight Did it seem to you that the four moderators spoke about as much as the candidates in last night's Democratic debate? Me too. Having some time on my hands, I decided to see if my hunch was accurate. Here's what I found out: Peter Jennings spoke more words than each of three candidates: Gen. Wesley Clark, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Rev. Al Sharpton. Jennings spoke nearly as many words as Gov. Howard Dean, who was expected to be the focus of this debate. In total, 30 percent of the words spoken came from one of...

1. ABC Cites Claim Bush “Shredding Constitution,” Sees “Red Meat” State of the Union coverage: ABC News. Peter Jennings hit John Kerry with a question from the left, how a student argued that since Kerry backed Bush on some issues, if you support Kerry “you might as well stay home on election day as Bush is already doing a good job of leading America into a war and shredding the Constitution.” Jennings also asserted that “beyond all of the lofty phraseology on which speechwriters work so vigorously, tonight there were a huge number of hot button issues which are going...

A study of television news coverage of the war in Iraq says ABC’s World News Tonight was the most antiwar — far more than CBS, NBC or Fox. — USA Today, September 9 Antiwar? What are we to make of that word, exactly? For starters, it brings to mind a twelve-year-old study on press coverage of the Catholic Church by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, the same outfit that did the study mentioned above. The findings then: press coverage is anti-Catholic. The center, which works to maintain a neutral image, did not use exactly those words but did...

Putting a damper on any happiness by Iraqis about Saddam Hussein’s capture, during ABC’s prime time special on Sunday night, Peter Jennings declared that “there’s not a good deal for Iraqis to be happy about at the moment. Life is still very chaotic, beset by violence in many cases, huge shortages. In some respects, Iraqis keep telling us life is not as stable for them as it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.” Earlier, Jennings, who spent the day flying to New York from Los Angeles, opened Sunday’s World News Tonight by emphasizing how Hussein had once been a...

Putting a damper on any happiness by Iraqis about Saddam Hussein’s capture, during ABC’s prime time special on Sunday night, Peter Jennings declared that “there’s not a good deal for Iraqis to be happy about at the moment. Life is still very chaotic, beset by violence in many cases, huge shortages. In some respects, Iraqis keep telling us life is not as stable for them as it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.” Earlier, Jennings, who spent the day flying to New York from Los Angeles, opened Sunday’s World News Tonight by emphasizing how Hussein had once been a...

So Peter Jennings blames the food industry for producing too much food. Maybe he should take a closer look at the Left's avoidance of self-control and personal responsibility before calling for the Nanny State!

(CNSNews.com) - A former colleague of Peter Jennings said the ABC News anchor can't comprehend his biased reporting because he believes his work is saving the "peasantry in America." Former ABC News correspondent Peter Collins, who worked with Jennings in the 1980s, said Monday night's news special on America's "obesity epidemic" is the latest example of Jennings' belief that he's looking out for the public good. "It's not a one-side attack because in their minds, they have convinced themselves that this is the source of the problem," Collins said, "and in order to save the peasantry in America from obesity,...

     An opportunity to avoid war lost by the Bush administration or an opportunity taken advantage of by ABC News to push its anti-war agenda? ABC led Wednesday night with “an ABC News investigation” of what Peter Jennings characterized as “what appears to be an opportunity lost” to work with “a man who was in the process of trying to broker a deal that might have avoided war with Iraq.”      Brian Ross proceeded to recount how in the weeks before the war a Lebanese businessman forwarded an offer from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief to allow U.S. agents to travel...

<p>YOKO Ono still knows how to get a man to take his clothes off. Peter Jennings was interviewing Ono at last week's ArtWalk event for the Coalition for the Homeless when she somehow talked the news anchor into getting inside a giant black bag with her in front of 500 people at Cooper Union's Great Hall. A few moments later, both emerged with Jennings struggling to put his shirt back on and Ono's own garb disheveled. While no one's quite sure what happened in the bag, everyone was craning their necks to get a glimpse of Jennings bare-chested - including his wife, Kayce Freed, seated in the front row with her mother.</p>

     Arnold Schwarzenegger is no conservative, but the liberal media are smearing him as if he were. The same broadcast networks that flinched when faced with credible charges that Democratic darling Bill Clinton actually raped a woman during his 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial campaign are scrambling to give free airtime to women who charge Schwarzenegger with unwanted groping.     “I don’t remember all the details of Juanita Broaddrick,” CBS anchor Dan Rather told FNC’s Bill O’Reilly in 2001 about the woman who alleged Clinton raped her, “but I will say that — and you can castigate me if you like — when...

After sharing the top job with Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson for five years, Peter Jennings became sole anchor of World News Tonight on September 5, 1983. During the last twenty years, Jennings’ liberal tilt has been obvious — the ABC anchorman has pushed for European-style welfare programs, denigrated tax cuts, castigated Republicans as intolerant, scoffed at suggestions that Soviet communism was a threat and pushed the arguments of left-wing anti-war activists during this year’s successful war to oust Saddam Hussein. To commemorate his 20th anniversary, the MRC presents some of the anchorman’s worst bias; many more examples are available...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - One month before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, the broadcast networks seem set to change the tone of their coverage of that event from focusing on the event itself and the memorials to looking more at policy issues in the aftermath of the attacks. The exact extent of the coverage is still uncertain as the networks await to hear from New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., on their plans for the day, but it is highly unlikely that ABC, CBS and NBC News will repeat their 2002 menu of broad live coverage...

(AgapePress) - One of the most outspoken critics of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings believes the Canadian-born television icon recently became a U.S. citizen in order to deflect criticism of his anti-American bias.Tim Graham of the Media Research Center (MRC) says Jennings has been bashing America for as long as he can remember. Graham recalls a typical remark from a 1990 broadcast in which Jennings implied that America's involvement in Cambodia had placed the country "on the edge of hell again."Graham says the remark "pretty much tells you what Peter Jennings thinks about the United States." And because such comments...

<p>July 22, 2003 -- Tony Blair's speech to the Congress was as inspiring as it was encouraging. You'd never know it to listen to ABC News' Peter Jennings ("Jennings' War," Opinion, William F. Buckley Jr., July 21).</p> <p>Instead of focusing on the speech and how well it was received, Jennings went right to clips of past Parliament sessions during which Blair was assailed as a "liar."</p>

"Lead us not into temptation." I commend this commandment to Peter Jennings of ABC, who did exactly that devil-work with only lightly concealed gusto in midweek on his nightly news. Here are two or three soldiers, outdoors, their gear still on. The sun is scorching hot. In fact, our soldiers have been hot for four months. And sandswept, early on. They were fighting a very hot war for six weeks, and maybe one of them, maybe all three, saw other soldiers alongside being killed. And for what seem now the interminable weeks since April 9, when Saddam's statue was...

Peter Jennings, ABC's notoriously anti-American anchorman, has finally become a U.S. citizen after getting rich off America for four decades. Jennings, a Canadian, quietly gained his citizenship on May 30 in Manhattan. He revealed his big secret to friends at a party on Independence Day, the Associated Press reported today. "Jennings' citizenship has occasionally been raised by critics, most recently July 4, 2002, when ABC decided not to include country singer Toby Keith and his song 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)' on an Independence Day special," AP noted. So why now, after 40 years in...

America's most famous Canadian, Peter Jennings has announced that he will be seeking American citizenship.

Peter Jennings takes up U.S. citizenship After pondering the idea seriously for a decade -- and weathering a recent controversy in which his Canadian roots were an issue -- ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has become an American citizen. The Toronto-born journalist, who was raised in Ottawa and still retreats from fame every summer to a farm in the nearby Gatineau Hills, said yesterday the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and his recent travels throughout the country have made him feel "much more connected to the Founding Fathers' dreams and ideas for the future." Mr. Jennings, who...

Roone Arledge's autobiography is like many egocentric ''how I saved the world'' memoirs. However, as Mohammed Ali opined, 'It ain't braggin' if it's true.'' Roone is packed with true stories about a legendary career that revolutionized TV sports, converted a doormat news division into a supernova and helped transform a woebegone, ''smoke and mirrors'' network into a powerhouse. Arledge's accomplishments are well documented, notably in Marc Gunther's The House That Roone Built and Monday Night Mayhem, but this is the master's voice, the inside scoop, a rare glimpse of genius ''up close and personal'' (a Roone original). Arledge was one...

Right-wing control leaves no reason for rejoicing YOUR TURN by B.J. Paschal, professor emeritus of psychology May 29, 2003 Some of my Taliban Republican critics take great pride in telling me that Benjamin Franklin urged the delegates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to open their sessions with morning prayers.But they fail to mention that the records show that the delegates refused to even debate the issue.I usually ask them if they have read Franklin's statement about the proposed Constitution (which was adopted). Of course, he prophesied that this effort would fail: "There is no form of government but...

Clinton Assigns BlameAnd, no, it’s not his fault.By Kevin M. Cherry, a writer living in Alexandria, Va..November 8, 2001 11:30 a.m.   n a speech at Georgetown University, President Bill Clinton blamed, in part, the United States for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Speaking to a group of about 1,000 students, the former president said that our nation is "paying a price" for slavery and for its treatment of the "significant number of native Americans" who "were dispossessed and killed."Osama bin Laden certainly has given no indication that he was concerned about the American sin of slavery —...

ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has defended his network's coverage of the war in Iraq after it was strongly rapped by Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly (a former ABC newsman himself), who charged it was "the most skeptical" of the U.S. led effort. "O'Reilly is not the only person to have decided that," Jennings told the Sacramento Bee on Wednesday. "There are a number of militant conservatives or activist conservatives or whatever you want to call them, who decided that our coverage was liberal and Fox's was accurate. ... I don't quite understand it, because I don't see it in...

Of course, Peter Jennings and friends ignore the real reason that the lives of so many Tinseltown airheads are getting difficult -- because they took advantage of America's very generous constitutional guarantees of free speech to appear on every cable news show they could find to denounce and disparage President George W. Bush, to make outlandish predictions about all the cruelty and carnage which would be inflicted on the Iraqi people by the American "invaders" and "occupiers," and to celebrate an imaginary "breakdown" in the American military campaign which they happily interpreted as an American defeat -- not too popular...

(CNSNews.com) - Another former ABC News correspondent has stepped forward to accuse long-time World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings of inserting a liberal editorial bias in the news copy of reporters in the field. The charges leveled by Bob Zelnick, who spent 21 years at ABC News, follow revelations from former network correspondent Peter Collins, that Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Zelnick, now the chairman of the journalism department at Boston University, left ABC News in 1998 after executives refused to renew his contract because they feared Zelnick's...

ABC Frets About Doorknobs Broken By POW-Rescuing Commandos ABC and Peter Jennings have found another U.S. military action to complain about. Having supposedly failed to protect a museum, now Jennings is upset that they lied about the rescue of POW Jessica Lynch, a raid in which they unnecessarily broke some doorknobs in the hospital where she was being held. Recalling that rescue, on Wednesday's World News Tonight, Jennings asserted: “Now we hear that it may have been less dangerous and maybe even less challenging than Central Command first told us.” From Nasiriyah, David Wright noted that “the U.S. “soldiers broke...

Party pooper. ABC's Peter Jennings on Tuesday night found time to relay the complaints from two liberal Democrats about President Bush's landing on an aircraft carrier last week, with Congressman Henry Waxman wanting to know the cost and former Klansman turned Senator Robert Byrd claiming it was an "affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the President to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech." On the May 6 World News Tonight, Jennings intoned: "The President's visit to the Abraham Lincoln was, among other things, a powerful photo opportunity and two leading...

More Bias? More and more reporters are stepping out to disclose bias in the press. First was CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran of the network until being forced off the air, charging that bias at the big-three network is so obvious and comes so naturally to media luminaries such as Dan Rather that "it's hardly worth discussing anymore." Oh, yes, it is worth discussing, says Peter Collins, for nine years ABC News' correspondent in Central America, reporting for "World News Tonight" and "Nightline." Recently retired from journalism and feeling "liberated," Mr. Collins charges that ABC anchorman Peter...

ABC News and Peter Jennings' favorite country, Cuba, was named by the CPJ as one of the world's worst countries to be a journalist. The Committee to Protect Journalists named Iraq (news - web sites), where nine journalists died in the first three weeks of the U.S.-led invasion, the "worst place in the world" to be a journalist. Afghanistan (news - web sites) was fourth on the list released Friday by the U.S.-based media watchdog, which said its list of "10 worst places to be a journalist" reflected the physical danger, government harassment, jailings and intimidation faced by journalists....

A former foreign correspondent with ABC News is accusing the network's best-known anchor of displaying a pro-Marxist bias.Peter Jennings and ABC News have been sharply criticized in recent weeks for the network's coverage of the Iraqi war. Many conservatives believe the Disney-owned news agency has a bias against the Bush Administration. [See Earlier Article]Now a former correspondent with ABC, Peter Collins, has gone public with allegations that Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua.Collins, who covered Central America for ABC during that period, tells Cybercast News that Jennings personally dictated...

Having kept quiet for 14 years, a former ABC News correspondent has gone public for the first time with allegations that network anchorman Peter Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Having kept quiet for 14 years, a former ABC News correspondent has gone public for the first time with allegations that network anchorman Peter Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Peter Collins, a newsman with over 30 years experience, including stints with Voice of America, the BBC, CBS News and CNN, recently walked away from the news industry and has "no compunction about telling [my story] now." In an exclusive interview with CNSNews.com, Collins alleged that Jennings personally dictated changes in a Collins television script in order to praise...

Looking Forward to a Long War John McWethy: "As the U.S. begins to really squeeze Baghdad, U.S. intelligence sources are saying that some of Saddam Hussein's toughest security forces are now apparently digging in, apparently willing to defend their city block by block. This could be, Peter, a long war." Peter Jennings: "As many people had anticipated." -- ABC's World News Tonight, April 4. Comforting a Dying Dictatorship "Within the United States, there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here....help those who...

While it only lasted about three weeks, the second Gulf War was an unqualified success. Jubilant Iraqis danced in the streets as U.S. military forces rolled into the center of Baghdad, while the dictator Saddam Hussein and his evil cohorts were, as General Tommy Franks put it on April 11, either dead or “running like hell.”      So what about TV coverage of the war? While the media covered many aspects of the war fairly well — reports from embedded journalists were refreshingly factual and were mostly devoid of commentary — television’s war coverage was plagued by the same problems...

ABC Covers Anti-War Actors By Playing Up Their “Punishment,” Not Their Errors or Radicalism Peter’s Sympathy for Hollywood Hypocrites       The war against Saddam Hussein may be over, but if you watch ABC, you might worry about the alleged oppressors still on the loose: President Bush and his supporters. On ABC last night, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings heavily promoted their final segment on how the successful Iraq war would end badly – at least for Hollywood radicals. Jennings promised: “When we come back this evening, being against the war and in show business. And the people who want...

ABC on New Threat to Iraqis:Christians Bearing Food     ABC has discovered something more dangerous to Iraqis than U.S. troops who fail to protect their treasures [here] and safeguard their stores of deadly germs [here]: Christians who come bearing food.     Check out this promo for Friday's World News Tonight aired on Thursday's broadcast: “Tomorrow: As American religious groups bring food and aid to Iraqi families, will they also bring their religious views? Could this create new tensions? Watch World News Tonight.”     But at least Iraqis will be healthy enough to have such concerns, assuming they are as threatened by it...