Peter Jennings Outed by Former Underling

The Washington Times, Inside the Beltway | Today | Jon McCaslin

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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 Jennings manipulated news scripts to praise the former Soviet-backed Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

Telling his story to CNSNews.com, Mr. Collins charges that Mr. Jennings dictated changes in his television script to sing the praises of the Sandinista government's "new, unselfish society," for reducing illiteracy and "launch[ing] the biggest land reform in Central America."

Mr. Jennings "took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua [in 1989] and first asked his producer to correct it for me and then he himself called me up in Managua and essentially dictated to me what I should say," Mr. Collins says.

"Basically what Mr. Jennings wanted was for me to make a favorable pronouncement about the 10 years of the Sandinista revolution, and he called me up, massaged my script in a way that I no longer recognized it."

ABC News publicist Cathie Levine told CNSNews.com that neither Mr. Jennings nor the network had anything to say about it.

[yooper]

The scandal continues......

[Petronski]

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[Las Vegas Dave]

ping..........

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh, thanks for posting this. I was wondering where it was....

[nhoward14]

Democratic Idiots Selling Nonsense Entertainment to Youth

[friendly]

Jennings is the Joseph Goebbels of the DNC.

Except Joseph Goebbels had more credibility.

[sauropod]

Ping!

[ChadGore]

Democratic Idiots Selling Nonsense Entertainment to Youth

That's pretty good !

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Jennings accused of 'Marxist' leanings

[Marylander]

The story on CNSnews.com is here.

[martin_fierro]

[detsaoT]

Boy, that headline had me scratching my head for a moment...

The notion that Peter Jennings could be anything but a hardline Communist is laughable at best.

:) ttt

[Recovering_Democrat]

ABC=
MICKEY
MOUSE
OPERATION

[FReepaholic]

More on Peter "Let Us Roll" Jennings

[KeyLargo]

Oh, I thought you were going to give some info. on Peter and his penchant for little boys. Never mind.

[ChadGore]

"More Americans get their news from my ass,
than from any other ass"

[ApesForEvolution]

BTW, Jennings is a high-school dropout (strike 1) who's been divorced 3 or 4 times (strike 2) originating from Canada (strike 3...yer out!).

[joesnuffy]

Peter the red knows reign....dear
at least the reign of Ortega
and the truth is not in him

[Rockitz]

Aim the boycott at the ABC World New Tonight sponsors and you may have a chance of success. Who are they? I don't watch so I don't even know.