[MindBender26]

When Challenger exploded, our net's guy, Rather, was a bowl of Jello.
Jennings was cool and in control. The message was very Chronkieian:

"The news is not good, but you need to know it.

We don't know everything yet, in fact we don't know much, and we won't pretend that we do. When we know it; you'll know it.

The news is not likely to get better, but you can handle it.... because there is no other choice."

In a way, 9/11 was almost the hidden sign of a Jennings > Gibson succession.

PS, Charlie can handle it too.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I have always liked Charlie. He seems like a genuinely good guy.

But (as has been mentioned earlier) it is truly the end of an era. The big three of my youth and teenaged years are no more.

In a way it is sad, as it reminds me of my own mortality. It seems as if it was just yesterday I was an 18 year old watching ABC thinking "Man, that Peter Jennings is cute!" I stop and think...My God! was that 33 years ago?

ABC tooled around more so than most until they got it right...but it was not meant to be. First Frank, then Max. Peter managed to make it his own.

[rwfromkansas]

I like Gibson quite a lot actually. He did a nice job tonight.

On 9/11, Jennings teared up some, but mostly kept it cool and collected, sifting through all the data masterfully.

Jennings told young reporters to do what he did and become a foreign correspondent. That probably is one of the best ways to keep from staying in local news never getting noticed by the network bigshots, but how one becomes a foreign correspondent is still up in the air in my mind. Everything you learn in J-school is geared toward how to report for local news.

It is amazing to think all three network anchors are gone from the air and either replaced or in the process of being replaced.

I think I am about the only person in college who actually still watches network news (will sometimes catch Brit on FNC or PBS' NewsHour instead of the regular network program though).