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I was deeply saddened to hear of Peter Jennings's death today.
Jennings was my favorite of the big three evening news deans, as I noted here before.
He was above all else a reporter, a humanist believer in fairness and the power of reporting.
In a Terry Gross interview, he admitted to his frustration with the evening new format. Like any good journalist, he hated the limits of his medium.
That's why I find it so hard to write the news copy. I realize that with the Evening News we are trying to give people black and white, but I want to give them gray.
While cable news anchors focused on the most recent missing white woman, Jennings spent part of his final year of his life working with the Washington Post's Robert O'Harrow to put together a documentary building on O'Harrow's stellar reporting in No Place Left to Hide.
We are all poorer for his death.
Posted by Ryan Singel at August 8, 2005 11:14 PM
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