Peetah Jennings was despondent, too. He actually criticized the Marine who covered Saddam's head with the Flag. Jennings and Koppel kept trying to come up with bad news to counter the image of the statue falling. ABC's coverage wasn't too bad before; Jennings must have run to the studio to try to throw a wet blanket on things.
That's exactly what I would expect from Peetah Jennings! Unfortunately I turned the TV on after the American flag was taken off, and the Iraqi flag replaced it. What exactly happened between the time the US flag was replaced by the Iraqi one?
As the statue was toppling, Brit Hume of Fox News said the BBC wasn't even covering this event in Baghdad! They were covering some earthquake in India. Even Al Jazeera was beaming these images of Saddam being toppled all over the Arab world!