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| Peter Jennings (ABC News Anchor) Dies at 67 |
| 2005-08-08 |
| From ABC News - Condolences to his family. Aug. 7 — ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. He was 67. On April 5, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, Kayce Freed, his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23, and his sister, Sarah Jennings. In announcing Jennings' death to his ABC colleagues, News President David Westin wrote: "For four decades, Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him. "As you all know, Peter learned only this spring that the health problem he'd been struggling with was lung cancer. With Kayce, he moved straight into an aggressive chemotherapy treatment. He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not. "We will have many opportunities in the coming hours and days to remember Peter for all that he meant to us all. It cannot be overstated or captured in words alone. But for the moment, the finest tribute we can give is to continue to do the work he loved so much and inspired us to do." |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #30 mom - I lost my mother and father to cancer. I can't say I exactly know what you are going through, but hoping for peace for you and your family. RIP Peter Jennings. May his family find solace and comfort. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-08-08 20:43 |
| #29 Gentlemen: A three-day moratorium, please, on griping about Jennings. I have been taking care of my mother, who has bone cancer, now terminal, for three years now. I know what the family is going through. They need your prayers. Captain America (#27) said it best. End it here, please. |
| Posted by: mom 2005-08-08 20:11 |
| #28 Shipman, I still miss cigarettes too after stopping over 22 years ago for good. Getting pregnant was the only way I was able to quit. I'm sorry to know that smoking is so glorious to most folks. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-08 18:50 |
| #27 As a professional, Jennings outlived his era. An era where the three propagandists (Jennings, Rather/Conkite, and Broka) could tell us shit that we were ill-equipped to refute. As a person, I hope Jennings rests in peace and that his loved ones grieve and then find happiness. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-08 18:14 |
| #26 Shipman: Tobacco, the other weed? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-08 17:58 |
| #25 LHR, others - I didn't watch Jennings and didn't like what I knew of him, but THIS WEEK is not the time to say anything but condolences to his family. They loved him, and had to watch him die an agonizing death. (The fact that he brought it on himself doesn't lessen their suffering one bit.) I don't expect you to say anything nice about him - I certainly won't - but for THIS WEEK show some class and STFU. My condolences to his family. The last few months have been a horrible time for them. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-08-08 15:58 |
| #24 I really enjoyed smoking, I still dream about it. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-08-08 15:52 |
| #23 Really, now. I'm not about to say something ill of the deceased, but the last remotely moderate MSM'er was Chet Huntley. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-08 13:50 |
| #22 LHR: We are all gonna die sometime and why should this pinko from the north get any props at all!! Jennings was a pinko liberal. But the current crop of young journalists is flat-out red (or green, or whatever the enemy's colors are). We are going to miss his relative moderation. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-08-08 13:47 |
| #21 How do they say thousand? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-08 13:40 |
| #20 Go look up the tapes. He said "oat" for the word "out," but had no trouble correctly pronouncing the word "thousand." Posturing phony... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2005-08-08 13:37 |
| #19 Jennings was somewhat left-biaised and it showed. However, compared to the average MSM on-air personality, he was remarkably fair to Republicans. As the network news audience gets smaller and smaller, they have been drifting more and more leftward. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-08-08 12:27 |
| #18 Long Hair Rep., Take your meds, man! I agree with you and Moose. I have had a strong dislike for Pete for many years. But, today is not the day to grind him into a pulp. Wait about 1 or 2 days, and then do it. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-08 12:12 |
| #17 he pretended to intellectualism and moral superiority, while embracing the lowest order of decay and corruption in his political allies. Death moose...well said, his 'work' wasn't harmless. No pretense in death, the final equalizer...and follows as many of us believe, Judgement day. Spot: We're not like DU or Koszies who seem to wish death on anyone who disagrees with them. agreed. I wish his family well, God bless. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-08-08 11:34 |
| #16 Peter Jennings was part of the problem, but he was not the problem itself. His death is not a cause to celebrate or an opportunity to further criticize him. Pete definitely had his moments and he was never a complete idiotarian, keeping in mind that the scale includes the likes of the BBC and Noam Chomsky. Does anyone remember how he bitch-slapped Wesley Clark for accepting support from Michael Moore last year? Jennings: Now, that's a reckless charge not supported by the facts. And I was curious to know why you didn't contradict him . . . Clark: Well, I think Michael Moore has the right to say whatever he feels about this.I don't know whether this is supported by the facts or not. I've never looked at it. I've seen this charge bandied about a lot. But to me it wasn't material . . . Jennings: Since this question and answer in which you and Mr. Moore was involved in, you've had a chance to look at the facts. Do you still feel comfortable with the fact that someone should be standing up in your presence and calling the president of the United States a deserter? Clark: To be honest with you, I did not look at the facts, Peter. You know, that's Michael Moore's opinion. He's entitled to say that. I've seen -- he's not the only person who's said that. I've not followed up on those facts. And frankly, it's not relevant to me and why I'm in this campaign. Clark ’s reluctance to contradict Moore was criticized the next day by the newspaper that started it all, the Boston Globe, which said in an editorial: "News reports, including some in the Globe , have questioned Bush's constancy as a National Guard airman at the time, but he has not been credibly accused of desertion, a serious charge. Clark should have distanced himself from the remark." RIP, Pete |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-08 11:31 |
| #15 Did you feel sorry when Goebbels died? He is part of the cancer of my country. I can give a big stinky poo weather people agree with me or not with my politics. Debate a conservative without throwing bomb shells..WTF!! Short memories. We are all gonna die sometime and why should this pinko from the north get any props at all!! He poisoned thousands of American minds. You people make this clown sound like he was somebody. I will grieve when Fred dies, now that will be a tragedy (God forbid any time with in the next 100 years). I identify my enemy and they stay that way until they change or die! |
| Posted by: Long Hair Republican 2005-08-08 11:27 |
| #14 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 such as Bill Clinton? 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. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-08 10:32 |
| #13 He might have been a liberal but he was willing to debate conservatives without "bomb throwing.," which is all I ask. FYI..Research shows that if you stop smoking in a reasonable amount of time, your lung can regenerate, to a point. If any RB's out there is smoking, stop NOW!! Better yet, NEVER start!!! It shouldn't take someone dying to make you think twice about your life. Remember you are not just killing yourself, you are also killing your wife/husband & kids, when you die. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-08 10:27 |
| #12 bye peter |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-08-08 10:07 |
| #11 LHR- Few if any of us here agreed with his politics, but we have some class. We're not like DU or Koszies who seem to wish death on anyone who disagrees with them. |
| Posted by: Spot 2005-08-08 08:10 |
| #10 Whatever we feel about his politics, by all accounts he was a loving father and husband who had a profound effect on his profession. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-08 07:01 |
| #9 The old adage that "if you can't say something good, then don't say anything" applies here. |
| Posted by: mac 2005-08-08 05:39 |
| #8 He may have been a propagandist for the other side but lung cancer is a horrific way to die. RIP Mr. Jennings. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-08-08 02:39 |
| #7 Man you people have some short memories!! Have you forgotten all the bs he has spewed upon the American public with his dead ducky tales.... As far as I am concerned he is or was an enemy propagandist from Canada. Part of the enemy within |
| Posted by: Long Hair Republican 2005-08-08 02:35 |
| #6 God rest your soul Peter Jennings. Cancer is nothing I woudl wish even on my worst enemy. Even Osama should die from a clean shot to the head, or lethal injection - or a hanging. Show him up even in death that we are far more human (yes Human, not humane) than him and his fellow Islamo-fascists. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-08-08 01:21 |
| #5 RIP. The weird thing is that these guys were the moderates, as liberals go. The guys replacing them are really, really far left. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-08-08 00:29 |
| #4 RIP Mr. Jennings - Who'd have thought that the MSM big 3 would all be gone from the anchor's chair within a year... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-08 00:21 |
| #3 In the 15 min ABC evening news in 67 Arab Israeli war and maybe 74 I seem to remember him stepping out of press copter in the middle of a huge tank battle in the Sinai. TOWs and the like were running everywhere. Very brave and maybe stupid too but very brave... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-08 00:19 |
| #2 I my not of agreed with him but I would not wish such an illness on any human being* much less their families Osama and his ilk don't qualify as human |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-08-08 00:16 |
| #1 His departure was so sudden, I was fairly sure that he would not return to his anchor chair. Rest well, Mr. Jennings. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-08-08 00:13 |