[dennisw]

I hear that Jennings had a lot of control and editorial control at ABC Nightly News. He wasn't just a news reader. He was a genuine journalist in his earlier years. He covered foreign beats such as the Middle East where his girlfriend was Hannan Ashwari.

All the above doesn't mean I'm mourning him. Mourning someone who figured into my life.

[bvw]

Then he was a journalist. And had he died still serving in the Beirut bureau or some other overseas outpost, he would not be being lamented as a "beloved almost-family member". What the crowd's tears fall for is delusion, the faux journalism of a news reader.

He is remembered today because he did don the wood and become a Charlie McCarthy of a sort, a voice of the MSM, of the modern deconstructionist, amoral, ethos. He is remembered because the MSM placed his pleasant patina in hundreds of millions of living rooms every day, and surrounded that nice and pleasant visage with legions of PR angels shouting his hosannas.