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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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He was very good to watch.
I assume that his death is due to lung cancer he was recently diagnosed with.
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1015438
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ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. He was 67. On April 5, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
He is survived by his wife Kayce Freed, his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23, and his sister Sarah Jennings.
In an announcing Jennings' death to his ABC colleagues, News President David Westin wrote:
"For four decades, Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him.
"As you all know, Peter learned only this spring that the health problem he'd been struggling with was lung cancer. With Kayce, he moved straight into an aggressive chemotherapy treatment. He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not.
"We will have many opportunities in the coming hours and days to remember Peter for all that he meant to us all. It cannot be overstated or captured in words alone. But for the moment, the finest tribute we can give is to continue to do the work he loved so much and inspired us to do."
Reported World-Shaping Events
As one of America's most distinguished journalists, Jennings reported many of the pivotal events that have shaped our world. He was in Berlin in the 1960s when the Berlin Wall was going up, and there in the '90s when it came down. He covered the civil rights movement in the southern United States during the 1960s, and the struggle for equality in South Africa during the 1970s and '80s. He was there when the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965, and on the other side of the world when South Africans voted for the first time. He has worked in every European nation that once was behind the Iron Curtain. He was there when the independent political movement Solidarity was born in a Polish shipyard, and again when Poland's communist leaders were forced from power. And he was in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and throughout the Soviet Union to record first the repression of communism and then its demise. He was one of the first reporters to go to Vietnam in the 1960s, and went back to the killing fields of Cambodia in the 1980s to remind Americans that, unless they did something, the terror would return.
On December 31, 1999, Jennings anchored ABC's Peabody-award winning coverage of Millennium Eve, "ABC 2000." Some 175 million Americans watched the telecast, making it the biggest live global television event ever. "The day belonged to ABC News," wrote The Washington Post, "&with Peter Jennings doing a nearly superhuman job of anchoring." Jennings was the only anchor to appear live for 25 consecutive hours.
Jennings also led ABC's coverage of the September 11 attacks and America's subsequent war on terrorism. He anchored more than 60 hours that week during the Network's longest continuous period of news coverage, and was widely praised for providing a reassuring voice during the time of crisis. TV Guide called him "the center of gravity," while the Washington Post wrote, "Jennings, in his shirt sleeves, did a Herculean job of coverage." The coverage earned ABC News Peabody and duPont awards.
Overseas, and at Home
Jennings joined ABC News on Aug. 3, 1964. He served as the anchor of "Peter Jennings with the News" from 1965 to 1967.
He established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world in 1968 when he served as ABC News' bureau chief for Beirut, Lebanon, a position he held for seven years. He helped put ABC News on the map in 1972 with his coverage of the Summer Olympics in Munich, when Arab terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage.
In 1975, Jennings moved to Washington to become the news anchor of ABC's morning program "A.M. America". After a short stint in the mornings, Jennings returned overseas to Rome where he stayed before moving to London to become ABC's Chief Foreign Correspondent. In 1978 he was named the foreign desk anchor for "World News Tonight." He co-anchored the program with Frank Reynolds in Washington, D.C., and Max Robinson in Chicago until 1983.
Jennings was named anchor and senior editor of "World News Tonight" in 1983. In his more than 20 years in the position he was honored with almost every major award given to television journalists.
His extensive domestic and overseas reporting experience was evident in "World News Tonight's" coverage of major crises. He reported from all 50 states and locations around the globe. During the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 War in Iraq, his knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs brought invaluable perspective to ABC News war in Iraq and the drug trade in Central and South America. The series also tackled important domestic issues such as gun control policy, the politics of abortion, the crisis in funding for the arts and a highly praised chronicle of the accused bombers of Oklahoma City. "Peter Jennings Reporting" earned numerous awards, including the 2004 Edward R. Morrow award for best documentary for "The Kennedy Assassination — Beyond Conspiracy."
Jennings also had a particular interest in broadcasting for the next generation. He did numerous live news specials for children on subjects ranging from growing up in the age of AIDS, to prejudice and its effects on our society. After the events of September 11, and again on the anniversary, he anchored a town hall meeting for children and parents entitled, "Answering Children's Questions."
Jennings was honored with many awards for news reporting, including 16 Emmys, two George Foster Peabody Awards, several Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and several Overseas Press Club Awards. Most recently, "World News Tonight" was recognized with two consecutive Edward R. Murrow awards for best newscast, based on field reporting done by Jennings on the California wildfires and the transfer of power in Iraq.
Jennings was the author, with Todd Brewster, of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, "The Century." It featured first-person accounts of the great events of the century. In 1999, he anchored the 12-hour ABC series, "The Century," and ABC's series for The History Channel, "America's Time." He and Brewster also published "In Search of America," a companion book for the 6-part ABC News series.
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Jon Miller
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no
Peter Jennings is dead.
RIP
JM
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mrmitchell
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So, erm, like, who is he?
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Anchor of one of the major three TV networks' nightly news programs, which are a huge deal for Americans (nightly news programs, that is), don't know if the same is true in Britain.
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"My god, it's full of peas..."
Jul 2002
time: 21:37
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I think this sums up nicely the loss.
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Peter Jennings: The End of an Era
August 10, 2005
By Joseph Hughes
The media world is coming to grips with the recent news that longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has died of lung cancer at 67. With his passing, we mark not only the loss of one of the giants of field, but also the end of an era in journalism.
For much of my life, Jennings was how I got the news. My family lived in the country until I was in sixth grade, so for many years the three networks were our only outlets. Plus, cable news hadn't yet reached the level of saturation it has today so, naturally, more people flocked to the Big Three.
We were always an ABC News family. I remember Jennings' wonderful voice, smooth delivery and steady demeanor guiding us through elections, revolutions, terrorist attacks and other passages of time. Jennings had an affinity for children; he always strived to help them come to grips with challenging events like the wars in Iraq and the September 11 attacks.
Unlike today's anchors, Jennings looked and acted like a journalist. What's more, he was a journalist. Known for his shrewdness as an editor, Jennings rarely let a story escape his eye prior to broadcast. He asked good questions, expected better answers and helped make sense of an often-confusing world. His was a calming presence.
He helped give meaning to the day's events and was a pillar when we sought clarity in a crisis. He had a gravity that let you know that what he was discussing meant something. I can say unequivocally that - aside from my parents - Jennings was the sole reason I chose a career in journalism.
Said former ABC News colleague Charles Gibson, "Peter could transform confusion into clarity and make exercise appear effortless. He set standards for us, and he never stopped raising them as he helped audiences understand the major events of our time." Echoing Gibson's sentiments was fellow anchor Tom Brokaw, who said, "Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elegance and style."
Perhaps my favorite Jennings anecdote came from ABC News correspondent Dan Harris. "When I went into a war zone for the first time, which was Afghanistan, he called my parents to let them know I was OK," a tearful Harris said. "He's the anchor of a broadcast that 10 million people watch a night. He's got plenty of things to do. And he took time, before the show, to call my parents and say, 'Your kid's alright.'"
In today's media world of celebrity breakups, kidnapped Caucasians, and shark attacks, Jennings' passing - coupled with the departures of NBC's Brokaw and CBS' Dan Rather - signifies the end of an era. Network news, already on the ropes, may never be the same. People no longer have to wait until 6:30 p.m. to get the news; instead, there's an unending news cycle perpetuated by cable news and the Internet.
While this trend, on paper, is a good thing, it often fails in practice. In an environment where breaking news and flashy stories prevail, we're losing the perspective that network news offered. We're adrift without an anchor, so to speak. The sheer amount of news with which we're confronted can be staggering. What we're not being confronted with these days is analysis.
By analysis, I'm referring more to sound, investigative reporting than what passes for the art these days - the commentaries, the punditry, the theorizing that leads most people to accept someone's cloaked agenda as fact. This, of course, is another unintended consequence of the 24-hour news cycle - and one that network news' tight broadcasts helped keep at bay.
We've truly been empowered to be our own journalists, our own news seekers. This is a good thing, to be sure, but we're also losing touch with the long-range view the news used to provide. We're being handed names, dates and sound bites without any background and being asked to provide our own narrative. Jennings and his colleagues helped provide that narrative.
As time passes, anchors like Jennings are being replaced with people like Bill Hemmer, hairpieces with no more knowledge of the news than the viewer at home. Level-headed journalists have given way to the Nancy Graces of the world. Pundits and former politicos are replacing professionals. A world where Bob Novak is given more airtime than Bill Moyers is a sad one, indeed.
While we mourn the loss of Jennings, we must also mourn the loss of something larger, of the time when news was news, entertainment was entertainment and never the twain shall meet. The news paradigm has forever shifted, though not necessarily for the better. Until the whos, whats, wheres, whens and whys replace the bottom line in the newsroom, I'm not convinced that we're headed in a better direction.
Goodbye, Peter. You'll be missed. |
"Goodnight, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
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08-08-2005 08:47
, didnt seem near as old
He was a fine ambassador for Canada all of these years.
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