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He took the top prize after old Dan had driven off into the fog! Now he is gone also--the end of an unlamented era.

I'm not fond of the guy or his politics. I do, however, wish him well in his fight against lung cancer. Those so inclined should pray for him, as I will. UPDATE: InMy, I'd refer you to Flick's excellent, detailed post below, if you were looking for a few examples of Jennings' biased statements. If that isn't convincing, type Peter Jennings Bias or Peter Jennings Munich Olympics into nearly any search engine. You could be reading for hours.

I must have missed the broadcast where Peter Jennings anounced that he had a poltical party (he could have only been registered for one election, he didn't become a citizen until 2003) I just don't get it? What did he ever say that made him sound bias? Was he on any other shows besides world news tonight that I am unaware of? Was there another channel that he was on hosting ABC's covering of the debates, in which he clearly told the on site reporter NOT to let the spinners from both sides (literaly and politicaly, a Bush spokesman and a Kerry spokesman were stading on either side of the on site reporter, who's name I can't recall, and Peter Jennings, in the studio, told him not to let EITHER of the spinners on camera) I would like a real, substaintiated quote, that clearly shows a political bias of Peter Jennings. Maybe you could find a quote that made him sound Anti-American durring his SIXTY HOUR NON-STOP BROADCAST durring 9/11, WHEN HE WAS CRYING!! Did anybody watch the O'rielly Factor on Monday? Did you happen to hear HIS opinion on Peter Jennings, saying, and I quote So many people accused Jennings of being a bias liberal, but he really wasn't. Orielly then went on to say that Peter Jennings idol, was somebody (who's name I can not recall also, but I'm sure somebody else heard this the other night) who was well known for being very conservative. I am really wondering what I missed? I mean, Dan Rather is without a doubt totaly bias to the left, but Peter Jennings? In the words of his colleague John Stossel (a co-host of 20/20) GIVE ME A BREAK!

There is nothing worse than an arrogant Canadian who takes the moral high ground when critizing U.S. foreign policy. If Canada wasn't rich in natural resourses and territiory, it would be nothing more than a third world country. Having travelled in Quebec, I would consider Quebec part of the Third World since it is kept afloat by the suckers in the English speaking provinces of Ontario & Alberta. Peter Jennings is paid good money by a major U.S. network for reporting the news. IF he feels uncomfortable with that, he should take a .90% pay hike and go and work for the CBC or CTV AND he can't rant against U.S. foreign policy all he wants. Since the CBC is Marxist in nature and funded by the poor sods of taxpayers in Ontario & Alberta, he can both mouth off at U.S. foreign policy AND take the moral high ground as well!!!

The man is clearly incapable of being objective and is extrodinarily overrated.

Peter Jennings needs to go back to Canada. While reporting on the 2004 election coverage he was visibly angry and argumenative with his own staff and guests when they tried to gently give him the devastating news that Kerry couldn't win Ohio. Then he went off air for at least an hour (my guess is he needed time to regain his composure). He referred to President Bush as Mr. Bush. Peter Jennings is not a journalist, he is a liberal hollywood wanna-be.

Just comes across as a big, arrogant snob. Fwah, fwah, fwah!

Peter Jennings was once asked by Larry King if there was a slant to news reporting. I think bias is very largely in the eye of the beholder, he answered. Good journalists work very hard to leave their bias beside the typewriter, or the computer as it may be. It seems to me that Mr Jennings does not practice what he preaches. On April 10, 1997 he felt that investigating Democrats was a poor use of resources when he said When we come back, two investigations of fundraising abuse, two of them on Capitol Hill. Is it a waste of time and money? (6 people were later convicted of felonies and / or misdemeanors) When George H.W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis Jennings felt that Dukakis had been robbed because during the election night coverage on Nov 8, 1988 he said There are people in the country who think George Bush won not in a landslide, but in a mudslide. Mr Jennings seems to have appointed himself custodian of how government money should be spent, and in his view spending it on defense is a waste because on June 12, 2000 he said We're going to take a closer look tonight at the plans for an anti-missile defense system. The one that has never been proven to work and may never work. After the Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994 Mr Jennings said in a radio commentary on Nov 14 that the American people had reacted like spoiled children. The exact quote was Ask parents of any two year old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping of feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming..... Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two year old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two year old. (Jennings later apologized for his remark) During the live coverage of the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, as a crowd or Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein, Jennings desperately searched for something negative to say. He came to the conclusion that the liberation of Iraq is bad for sculpters: Saddam Hussein may have been, or may be, a vain man, but he has allowed himself to be sculpted heavy and thin, overweight and in shape, in every imaginable costume.....The sculptering of Saddam Hussein which has been a growth industry for 20 years may well be a dying art. On a CBS news special, Breaking News, Aug 24, 2001 he admitted that being biased is glorious when he said We may tell you all the time that our principle aim in life is to communicate and assist, inform.....But if you see injustice and you can get people to do something about it, ahh, it's just a glorious feeling.....There's nothing a reporter likes more than to have an effect on policy. Bias is in the eye of the beholder Mr Jennings? Even a blind man can see it.

A true islamo fascist loving communist.

Not as bad as Rather, but is no big fan of Pres. Bush nor any other Republican leaders.

Jennings seems to be more critical of Republicans than Democrats in his slanted reporting at times, but he is not as blatant in his criticism as Rather and Katie Couric.

Castlebee said it all.