Peter Jennings, 1938-2005
I was sad this morning to read that Peter Jennings has crossed over. The 67-year-old, Canadian-born news veteran died in his New York home on Sunday. My education is in journalism, and while I don't generally think much of TV news, Jennings was, in many ways, a shining example of what journalism could be. In honor of Jennings' life, I'd like to offer a link to a Jennings tribute on the blog of my current favorite newsman, Keith Olbermann.
Peter Jennings: A Tribute
NEW YORK -- The calm, seasoned, assuring voice has been stilled.
We may remember him for his work on 9/11, or for any of a dozen other crises, from Vietnam to the Munich Olympics to the Challenger disaster. But the real story of Peter Jennings is not to be found in a kaleidoscope of unconnected moments of history.
It is, instead, contained in literally a half century of perseverance, growth; even redemption: He was the only enduring anchorman to return to the desk from which he had been fired. He was the only of America’s great newscasters, to have come from another nation. He was the anchorman who, having concurred with his early critics that he was “simply unqualified,” went out and did something about it. He was a man of whom a colleague would say in the early 1980s - with pride and affection - “He is now as good as he used to think he was.”
Read the rest on Keith's blog.
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