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
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I think audiences, in times of trouble and good times, look for people on television who are basic, don't have airs, don't hype themselves.
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There are a lot of people in this business who believe that part of our job is to reassure the public every night, ... I subscribe to leaving people with essentially a rough draft of history. Some days it is reassuring, some days it is absolutely destructive.
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I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
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I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
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I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
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I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
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I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
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I would think he would have wanted to be known for more than just that.
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Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the dark. Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the darkà . Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Using Iraqi government figures, which we cannot verify - they may be high or they may be low, we do not know - almost 700 civilians have been killed in the country since the U.S. invaded.
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When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that, of that scope, what extraordinary changes there have been.
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Hundreds of you have been like family. It feels good to have such a family right now.