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
thinking important islam
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
eye thinking negative
I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.
thinking good-work mainstream
I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
technology thinking people
I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
thinking people cynical
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.
thinking atheism way
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
thinking limits journalist
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits
thinking wings organization
I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.
thinking earth journalist
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
thinking axes media
I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.
thinking political television
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
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.
thinking giving advice
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
cooler focus hard tend worse
The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.