Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

[Tetsuo]

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he was sophisticated, smart, and commanded instant respect...

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He was a condescending anti-American jackass, a high school dropout and part of the generation of television news anchors that transformed a once proud profession into a craven pack of whores who now do little more than peddle political influence. Or, as someone put it somewhat more eloquently:

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In all fairness, it is not the manner nor the means of his death we criticize--it is the life he lead. For like a dishonest, but popular politician, his smiling face is what most people remember, never having seen the harm he promulgated on others, and his intent to do so. By manipulating the news as he did, he sewed much anguish among those he disdained. And though he was uneducated, never having completed high school, he pretended to intellectualism and moral superiority, while embracing the lowest order of decay and corruption in his political allies. Perhaps his most annoying feature was that he often implied that in being a Canadian he was somehow superior to Americans. That in being a Canadian, in itself, made him better than the hoi-polloi, the rednecks and crackers, the untermensch that dwell below the border of his native country. So, what is there to mourn with his passing? That he courted the unjust, that he oppressed the honorable, that he used his position to deride the audience he held in contempt, that he attempted to manipulate the political sphere in favor of [the left]? I will not mourn for Peter Jennings, I will forget him. For what he wanted in life was in itself his punishment, and seeing his faction brought low surely distressed him more than the opinions of the red state Americans he disliked.

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Offer condolences if you will, mourn him if you must, but please don't romanticize someone who played such a pivotal role in destroying a public institution that had served our nation so well.

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YAO I have a radio program for you. He was a major reason for the left wing media nonsense... I don't know that he was unamerican though he had his beliefs... he wasn't gung ho pro american though only becoming a citizen a few years ago.

YAO - Don Wade who had him on often would always battle with him (Not as bad as he nailed Durbin a few weeks ago though!) man you would love his show.

[kmanick]

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Cigarettes killed my Father. They is bad news [img]/images/graemlins/nono.gif[/img]

[fullshred]

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I just heard that P.J was one of over 400 people that died yesterday of lung cancer, yet it gets no news. If a plane went down and killed 400+ people, it would make headlines all around the world. I'm not saying that cigs/tobacco are responsible for all of those deaths, but you can bet that it's a significant portion, although 'big tobacco' would have you imagine differently. I smoked for 3 years and quit about 15 years ago. Thank goodness

[skorb]

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he was sophisticated, smart, and commanded instant respect...

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He was a condescending anti-American jackass, a high school dropout and part of the generation of television news anchors that transformed a once proud profession into a craven pack of whores who now do little more than peddle political influence. Or, as someone put it somewhat more eloquently:

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In all fairness, it is not the manner nor the means of his death we criticize--it is the life he lead. For like a dishonest, but popular politician, his smiling face is what most people remember, never having seen the harm he promulgated on others, and his intent to do so. By manipulating the news as he did, he sewed much anguish among those he disdained. And though he was uneducated, never having completed high school, he pretended to intellectualism and moral superiority, while embracing the lowest order of decay and corruption in his political allies. Perhaps his most annoying feature was that he often implied that in being a Canadian he was somehow superior to Americans. That in being a Canadian, in itself, made him better than the hoi-polloi, the rednecks and crackers, the untermensch that dwell below the border of his native country. So, what is there to mourn with his passing? That he courted the unjust, that he oppressed the honorable, that he used his position to deride the audience he held in contempt, that he attempted to manipulate the political sphere in favor of [the left]? I will not mourn for Peter Jennings, I will forget him. For what he wanted in life was in itself his punishment, and seeing his faction brought low surely distressed him more than the opinions of the red state Americans he disliked.

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Offer condolences if you will, mourn him if you must, but please don't romanticize someone who played such a pivotal role in destroying a public institution that had served our nation so well.

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right on man, I was reading down the thread wondering if I'd have to be the one to burst this ridiculous bubble.

this guy Jennings was an empty suit at best, and at worst, exactly what YetAnotherOne said. he was a leader of the "oh we're not liberal" liberal media, and as such, he was a liar, a scam artist and someone who we should not be holding up for any praise.

[the_drip]

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Offer condolences if you will, mourn him if you must, but please don't romanticize someone who played such a pivotal role in destroying a public institution that had served our nation so well.

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[/ QUOTE ] Born in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Jennings was the son of Charles Jennings, the first news anchor and head of the news department at the CBC. After the family moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Peter grew up there and attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Carleton University, and Rider College in New Jersey. He never graduated from high school or college, preferring to begin his radio career.

He got his start in broadcasting at the age of nine, hosting a weekly half-hour CBC Radio kids' show called Peter's Program. In his late teens and early twenties, he appeared in a number of amateur musical theatre productions with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, including Damn Yankees, South Pacific, and Club Thirteen. He also worked as a Royal Bank of Canada teller before his journalist days. At the age of 23, he was hired by a local radio station in Brockville, Ontario. As he quickly ascended the industry ladder, Canada's first private TV network CTV (a competitor of his father's network), hired Jennings to co-anchor its late-night national news. He was assigned to cover civil rights activities, where he was noticed by American network ABC and in 1964 was hired away as a correspondent. Barely a year later, he was given several high-profile reporting opportunities for what was then a 15-minute news broadcast on ABC Evening News.
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Anchor career

In 1962, Jennings co-anchored the CTV network news.

His first stint as ABC's anchor took place in 1965 on the appropriately named "Peter Jennings with the News". At 26, he was and is the youngest ever American network news anchor. He could not compete with older anchors of other networks such as Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. His Canadian English accent, grammar, and diction and mistakes from inexperience with American topics led to his being replaced in 1968, and derided by critics as "glamourcaster" or "anchorboy".

Determined to rebuild his career, Jennings stayed with ABC but sought a foreign correspondent position, placing him in the Middle East during the Yom Kippur War and the Lebanese civil war, putting him into contact with world leaders and granting him intimate knowledge of important regions, such as Jennings again found note as the ABC reporter on scene during the Munich Olympics massacre.

Beginning in 1978, Jennings was part of a three anchor team on "World News Tonight", with Frank Reynolds in Washington, Max Robinson from Chicago and Jennings from London. A year later, he married his third wife, author Kati Marton, whom he had two children with, Elizabeth and Christopher.

After Reynolds' unexpected death in 1983, the president of ABC News Roone Arledge first chose Tom Brokaw, NBC's White House Correspondent, to take the top job as main news anchor. Brokaw turned down the offer and took over as sole anchor on the NBC Nightly News. Jennings was then selected, starting on September 5, 1983, and became a very influential TV personality. On December 31, 1999, 175 million people tuned into at a least a portion of his network's Millennium Eve special ABC 2000, also known as ABC 2000 Today.

For more than two decades, Jennings was a visible fixture in many American homes every night. Along with the two other pillars of the so-called 'Big 3' -- Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS -- Jennings had, in the early 1980s, ushered in the era of the TV news anchor as lavishly compensated, globe-trotting superstar. The magnitude of a news event could be measured by whether Jennings and his counterparts on the other two networks showed up on the scene. Jennings led the rating race for a decade beginning in 1986, and had been a close second in the ratings behind Tom Brokaw and Brokaw's successor Brian Williams since then. After the departure of Brokaw from his anchor chair in December 2004, followed by Rather's retirement from the evening news in March 2005, Jennings' death brought that era to a close.

Jennings was a frequent target of charges of "liberal bias" by certain conservative groups, such as the Media Research Center.[1] Supporters of Jennings contended that most critical reports of him consisted of inaccuracies or out-of-context quotes.

During his career, Jennings had reported from every major world capital and war zone, and from all 50 U.S. states, according to the network. According to his official ABC biography, he was "in Berlin in the 1960s when the Berlin Wall was going up," and there again "in the 1990s when it came down." He seemed to draw on that collective experience -- as well as his practiced ability to calmly describe events as they unfolded live -- not long after two hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Over the course of that day, and those that immediately followed, he would spend more than 60 hours on the air in what Tom Shales of The Washington Post, praised as a tour de force of interviewing and explanatory broadcast journalism laced with undisguised bewilderment. [ QUOTE ]


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He kept us informed and did so with integrity. Leave your right wing views somewhere else. And when Hannity dies (hopefully by gunshot) you can romanticize the motor mouth all you want. [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Thanks YAO - I almost posted a "YAY!" comment, but figured I'd be alone on that one.
Glad to see him go.

Oh, Drip - as long as someone here is free to post their Left Wing views, you can bet the Right Wingers have the same freedom, so in your own words: STFU.

[StarRider]

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wow RIP he was a great reporter [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Drsracing]

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If Newc and Drip can post left and right wing comments, can I post center wing comments?? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Badseed]

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The man was the main reason my parents have been mi-informed for decades.Cancers a bitch, im not glad to see he died.He was a hypocrite like the rest of the "news:" anchors on the mainstream tv dial.

Drip, take some meds please.God forbid someone have an opposing view of the world then you.

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If Newc and Drip can post left and right wing comments, can I post center wing comments?? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Theres a hockey joke here somewhere, can you help me find it? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Drsracing]

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That's exatly what I was trying to find in it too

[Tetsuo]

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Thanks YAO - I almost posted a "YAY!" comment, but figured I'd be alone on that one.
Glad to see him go.

Oh, Drip - as long as someone here is free to post their Left Wing views, you can bet the Right Wingers have the same freedom, so in your own words: STFU.

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Exactly and that was what Don Wade said today. I actually despise when either side goes to far off on the other sides being able to express their views... I don't think everyone should have a center view I am just saying both are allowed to express thier view. As Don said Peter was a great guy but he did not like what he had to say politically. They fought often and Jennings got Wade pretty good he had his # but Don and Roma had him on after he left the ABC desk... He was a decent human but he was no doubt at the forefront of the liberal media which for me drives me nuts.

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He kept us informed and did so with integrity. Leave your right wing views somewhere else. And when Hannity dies (hopefully by gunshot) you can romanticize the motor mouth all you want.


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Yeah and you would just sit back and not say a word about that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img].. Riiiiggght. Aren't you the one who's always claiming the media has a right slant to it? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

Anyhoo, RIP Peter. I don't like to see anyone die especially from something as horrible as cancer no matter how they got it.

[Sandman0170]

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What the hell is wrong with some of you? Some one posts something nice to mourn a person that had an effect on their lives, and then you come in badmouthing the guy? Left wing or right wing, have some decency. I don’t care what your opinions of the guy are; this certainly was not the time or place for them. The forum needs to start showing more respect for others on here or I will have no problem weeding some of you out. Take this as your warning.

[hippietim]

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Offer condolences if you will, mourn him if you must, but please don't romanticize someone who played such a pivotal role in destroying a public institution that had served our nation so well.

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Glad to see him go.

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Newc, take your own advice and shut the fuck up. Regardless of what you think of his reporting and opinions, saying you are glad to see him go only reflects poorly on you.
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