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12/19/2007
Ken Auletta, David Westin, Lynn Sherr, Kayce Freed Jennings
A discussion about the life and work of Peter Jennings
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A discussion about the life and work of Peter Jennings with Kayce Freed Jennings, Ken Auletta of The New Yorker, Lynn Sher of ABC News and David Westin, President of ABC News. Peter Jennings was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. The panel also discuss the book A Reporter's Life Peter Jennings Edited by Kayce Freed Jennings, Lynn Sherr and Kate Darnton.
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That was a fine show and a fitting tribute to a handsome and pleasant fellow. Peter Jennings was my favorite prime time news reader in recent times, but he was no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Morrow or even Peter Arnett. Like most corporate journalists, Peter Jennings never challenged conventional wisdom or government corruption. He never exercised the power of the press to defend citizens rights against the abuse of power, or at least to inform the electorate through astute analysis and cogent reasoning a la Thomas Paine or I.F. "Iggy" Stone. Like all the rest of the millionaire media moguls, he simply went with the flow. Maybe Canadians are just too polite to fight.
I myself wanted to be a journalist/writer a long time ago. Peter Jennings was one of my mentors I looked up to.
I cried watching this interview. Beautiful Charlie. A wonderful remembrance.
I am looking forward to this show. Speaking of a (consumate journalist). Peter Jennings to me was a journalism icon. What I loved about him was that he was a consumate (professional) journalist & reporter yet he really opened up the piece on what he was reporting to get to the human side of the story. He got behind it and showed you what was really going on, what was really happening. That's what I Ioved about Peter Jennings. He never forgot, and he never let you forget that these stories of fact were human. He cared about the human condition. The world is less of a better place without him here in it. May he rest in peace.