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1938–2005
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (29 July 1938 – 7 August 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor on ABC World News Tonight from 1983 through April 2005.
Also known as: Jennings, Peter
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There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
I don't think the public realizes how much soul-searching goes on in news organizations about what is the right thing to do.
I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
Seems like yesterday; seems like forever—all at the same time.
Larry King Interview (2003)
I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.
My dad was part of the pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada. And he always told me the most important thing you can be in your career is fair.
Larry King Interview (2003)
I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms.
Larry King Interview (2003)
Good evening. We begin tonight...
There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, "Ah, it's those damn liberals," and a whole group of liberals saying, "It's all those damn conservatives"... If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, 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.
[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.
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