Politics aside, Peter Jennings was a superb newsman.
Prayers for Mr Jennings' family.
Posted on 08/06/2005 7:30:06 PM PDT by MindBender26
Edited on 08/07/2005 8:45:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
From friends at ABC; Peter Jennings is near death. This is unconfirmed, but from usually reliable sources.
The ABC anchor, who was born in Canada but became a US citizen, announced a few months ago that he was suffering from lung cancer. He has not made a televised appearance since.
Peace for him and his family.
And I respond with the question, what about all those journalists who didn’t “achieve” (realize) any advancement within ABC precisely because they didn’t share the left-wing political affections of a Peter Jennings, journalists and war correspondents who went to Vietnam for example, but because they wanted to report a different side of the war that wasn’t part of the leftist agenda to weaken the resolve of the American people, war correspondents who had their own dreams of a career in journalism, an idea of journalism as truthful and trustworthy reporting of the entire story to the American people, journalist who were just a capable, charismatic, and yes more intelligent and much more of a journalist than a Peter Jennings could be, but had their careers and their medium to be a journalist torn from them by ABC because they would not be toadies of the left?
Because I can tell you there is example after example, and we have heard from some of them in recent years thanks to the new media, who reminist and remind us of just how phoney the very phoney liberal news really was, and is, now a legacy media that is dying and with the help of God will die.
I heard a caller, in fact a couple, to Matt Drudge, reminiscing, reminiscing of the days of this legacy media and Peter Jennings, almost as if, telling us of “those days” when we only had ABC, and NBC, and CBS, of a Peter Jennings and the “risks” he took, reminiscing – reminiscing, of what? Of what? Almost as if they actually miss those days?
I don’t miss those days. I don’t look back on those days, and reminisce, as if some of these idiots almost miss “those days” (the good ol’ days?) – what the hell are they thinking?
Those days sucked. And in those days, those days were the days of the big lies, and the big con, and the Big Left.
And in those days, America only have a few voices, from far away, locked away, voices like Dr. Stuart McBirnie, and so many others, forgotten names, because they were persecuted.
Yes. That’s right. Persecuted.
There were many Peter Jennings, of a different sort. But these Peter Jennings, they didn’t climb to the pinnacles of ABC, or NBC, or CBS. They didn’t climb, no, they had their legs cut out from under them, quick and early.
There were many Peter Jennings, who were taken down, by the same people who want to take us down, and take America down.
There were many Peter Jennings, who were better than the Peter Jennings that we are now suppose to worship. But they didn’t get their chance to be a Peter Jennings. Because, they were just, well, too America I guess.
We are told by Matt Drudge, Peter Jennings got to where he was, because he was good at what he did.
I really don’t think that’s the whole story. I really don’t think that’s the true story. In fact, it isn’t the true story.
So, no, I’m not going to get on the band wagon with Matt Drudge, and “reminisce” about Peter Jennings, a face on the media across the fruited plains, and his achievements, and the risks he took. Because, there were a lot of Peter Jennings, but they didn’t share the political affections of this Peter Jennings, and so ABC never allowed, made damn sure, that they would never become a Peter Jennings. And it’s a damn shame ABC is such a biased “media”, to this day, just listen to their day-in, day-out slant of the ABC radio news, which isn’t at all about news, and everything about taking us down. Today, they want us to lose in Iraq, to leave, and, yes, they want the other side to win. Just like in Vietnam. It’s the same old story. The same old story line from ABC News. The same old Peter Jennings. Before they breath their last, ABC will give us another Peter Jennings.
And, that isn’t journalism.
Well, he didn't go and announce it on alphabet news, as far as I know, but the scuttlebut at the time around Washington was that that was his motivation ... Kind of makes sense from a selfish point of view, if you think about it. And from a purely evidentiary point of view, it is suspicious that he waited until right before he could start collecting to make his move ...
Well, then all that it is, is gossip.
Okay, that's it. Baby's sleeping, FINALLY. I have to get some z's!
Thats interesting
Politics aside, Peter Jennings was a superb newsman.
Prayers for Mr Jennings' family.
Headline was changed at TOD
How absurd. Do you really think, with the amount of money he was making at ABC, that he would need to collect another paltry few thousand?
God bless Peter and his family. We may not have agreed with his politics but he is still one of us....a fellow human being.
From friends at ABC; Peter Jennings is near death. This is unconfirmed, but from usually reliable sources
so, I know it's splitting hairs and all, but which is it?
Is everyone that died overnight going to get a long FR thread? Was this man a King? Did he save many lives? Did he write wise books?
Better than Brokaw? The reason I ask, is everyone both here and at DU is suddenlty talking about what a great reporter he was. I ask, because I really don't know. If you were to ask me the difference in the quality of reporting between Jennings and Brokaw, or Bernard Shaw, I couldn't tell you.
It seems to me they are all just guys who read the teleprompter.
Rest in peace, Mr. Jennings. I certainly did not agree with his politics, but he had a pleasant speaking voice and good delivery. I always preferred Brokaw among the big network anchors, but Jennings was also quite good.
With Tom Brokaw, I will never forget the way he & others slanted their news reporting in Lebanon, favouring Arafat's gang of thugs when Israel expelled the PLO leadership in 1982.
For better or worse, Jennings was part of the cultural fabric within which politics has existed (this is a Political forum, remember)?
To a great degree he, Rather and Brokaw were responsible for the MSM going from reporting news to shaping news and its eventual downfall.
That is why he is important. Many of us still saw him nightly and felt a connection, even if an angry one, and wished him personally nothing but good. We are using this thread to express those thoughts.
If you don't like the subject you can stay off the thread.
Are others allows to "express" their own "thoughts" about Jennings, or are you advocating censorship or sensitivity training?
Take a wild guess.
I apologize. I didn't notice the "hagiography" tag in ther title.
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