Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CMwas 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. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth29 July 1938
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
scholar reporters
I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
thinking views different
If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
years america problem
Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.
thinking giving advice
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
quality adults born
I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
writing america wanted
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
came cold coming fact measure sort war
It's sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm 20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end.