Ex-colleague questions competence of Jennings

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 8, 2003

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An ABC News special tonight hosted by Peter Jennings is the latest example of the anchorman's inability to comprehend his biased reporting, says a former colleague.

Peter Jennings (Photo: ABC News)

"How to Get Fat Without Really Trying," airing at 8 p.m. Eastern time, reflects Jennings' belief his calling as a journalist is to protect the "peasantry in America," charges former ABC News correspondent Peter Collins, according to CNSNews.com.

"It's not a one-side attack because in their minds, they have convinced themselves that this is the source of the problem," Collins told CNSNews.com, "and in order to save the peasantry in America from obesity, it's their obligation to present these facts the way they present them."

ABC News said in a news release the obesity program will reveal why "much of the problem with the American diet is the direct result of federal government policy and food industry practices."

Now retired from journalism, Collins reported on Central America during the 1980s for ABC's "World News Tonight" and "Nightline."

Collins said he has not viewed tonight's program, but the description provided by ABC indicates it's more of the same. He thinks Jennings and his colleagues are blind to their leanings.

"When he and his producer load and tilt a story, you can argue it's leftist bias, but it's just as effective to say they left out basic facts because they couldn't see them or they are incompetent to see them," Collins told CNSNews.com.

Collins said he believes Jennings "genuinely thinks of himself as a nobleman doing public good."

"I know that sounds preposterous, but that's the attitude," he said.

An encounter with Jennings in the late 1980s illustrates that thinking, Collins said. After walking out of the anchorman's office in New York City, Collins remarked to the secretary how nice Jennings had been.

"And she looked at me with kind of beatific smile and said, 'Yes, it's his sense of noblesse oblige,'" recalled Collins, noting the French term means an obligation of those in power to be honorable.

Collins pointed out Jennings is the son of Charles Jennings, who was vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Peter, born and raised in Canada, hosted his own radio show on CBC at the age of 9.

Collins said presenting the full picture or a balanced story doesn't appear to concern Jennings.

"Jennings and the people around him really believe they are performing a public service when they launch attacks on the food industry in this case, or American foreign policy in other cases," Collins told CNSNews.com "They earnestly believe in their rightness."

[Diogenesis]

Leave Pierre alone.
He can only be tried by his peers --- traitors and those who failed to graduate high school.

[Timocrat]

He's one of the anointed. See Thomas Sowell.

[Ham Hock]

Wasn't Jennings a high school drop out? I wonder where he gets his sense of self importance.

[KellyAdmirer]

It is about time for a peasant revolt.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Collins said he believes Jennings "genuinely thinks of himself as a nobleman doing public good."

"I know that sounds preposterous, but that's the attitude," he said.

No, he sounds like every other Socialist who wants to rule us "for our own good".

[Veritas_est]

Bump

[Lancey Howard]

Whoa, Peter Jennings is still doing news stuff?

[rickmichaels]

ABC News said in a news release the obesity program will reveal why "much of the problem with the American diet is the direct result of federal government policy and food industry practices."

Yet another shot at Dubya? Hmmm, I wonder. There were just as many lardasses around when The Stainmaster was president, but Jennings wasn't flapping his gums then.

[Paul_B]

> ABC News said in a news release the obesity program will reveal why "much of the problem with the American diet is the direct result of federal government policy and food industry practices.

If indeed that is the content of the show, I can't fault it. The official endorsement of the high-carb, low fat diet, the absolution of trans-fats, along with the rise of the sedentary lifestyle, has indeed been at the root of the new American obesity.

Paul

[Veritas_est]

Whoa, Peter Jennings is still doing news stuff?

Where do you get the "still" friend?

If this is news stuff it'll be a first for Papa Peter.

[Ronin]

It's sort of like the "homeless" problem. There are never any homeless during a Demoncrap administration. They are poor beknighted souls who are immediately chucked out into the streets by evvvvviiiilllll right-wingers in celebration right after a Republican inauguration.

[theFIRMbss]

> protect the "peasantry in America,"

Well, if I weren't so busy sorting my filth, I'd be offended...

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

"Wasn't Jennings a high school drop out?"

Yes:
JWR

Famous High School Dropouts

[Prodigal Son]

Collins said he believes Jennings "genuinely thinks of himself as a nobleman doing public good."

I believe it.

[snowrip]

"If indeed that is the content of the show, I can't fault it. The official endorsement of the high-carb, low fat diet, the absolution of trans-fats, along with the rise of the sedentary lifestyle, has indeed been at the root of the new American obesity."

Wrong... Low-carb diets are an excellent way to lose weight, provided they are also low in fat and combined with even a basic excercise regimen. The suspension of thinking on the part of John and Jane Q. Public, who think that eating eggs and sausage and hot dogs all the time will make them lose weight, is the root of the new American obesity. Failure to excercise common sense will trump the gov't every time.

[Enterprise]

Grab the axes and pitchforks! Let's roll!

[CyberAnt]

In "Legacy", Rich Lowry makes the following statement about the Clinton crowd. In the second paragraph on page 11, he says (as well as quotes others), "This elite didn't just feel a call to run the country, it felt it deserved to run the country. 'They think of themselves as entitled to power in a way their antecedents never did,' Weisberg writes. 'The Clinton circle has a prounounced class consciousness that tells them they're not just lucky to be here. They're running things because they're the best.' How could anyone reject the leadership of a group of people so intelligent and famously 'conscience stricken'? In the Clintons, this sense of entitlement produced a deep anger at the fact that their ambitions encountered resistance."

When President Bush says, "I'm honored to be", he really means it. The democrats are not honored to be anything .. they believe they deserve to be there because they are smarter than we are and they know better what we need. Seems Petah is a member of this group. It does explain the anger though .. and makes it laughable.

[Reagan Man]

Wow! To be a nobleman and a liberal hack at the same time. Jennings must be very proud of himself. Personally, I think he's a real smooth operator. I just don't trust him.

[Indie]

I am going right now, to eat a Whataburger, extra cheese and double meat. So I can help the mexican economy, I will add jalapenos and extra lettuce. Then I will scarf down a few chicken strips with gravy, the box for which will be bleached white on the inside and contain dioxin.
This dinner is for you Jennings and PETA. :))
To heck with the carbs, what are the symptoms of Hepatitis again?? This non-English speaker at the drive up window I think just spit in the gringos food.