Peter Jennings on the Iraq War (A good read for his critics)

[Ernesto]

Media Research Center - "the largest media watch-dog organization in America," it touts itself - is a non-profit conservative outfit founded and run by L. Brent Bozell, a prominent conservative activist. Its website compiles lists of what it considers liberal bias in the media, among which it places Peter Jennings' allegedly anti-American commentary on the Iraq War. Two years after the War, though, that commentary looks more and more like accurate, responsible, and at times prescient reporting. It also undermines the self-exculpatory liberal consensus that Bush "lied us into war" by showing us just how much even broadcast journalists subject to all the particular commercial and government pressures of TV can manage to put on the air if they make the effort.




http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0808-25.htm

[AX10]

1. Jennings had the fairest coverage.

He was not a sensationalist like that 'liberal' Dan Rather.

[JAbuchan08]

2. I can give credit to some journalists for their reporting on the war

not every MSM reporter and anchor is a willing "tool" of the administration. I have a lot of respect for men like Peter Jennings and Dan Rather, but they've been rendered (on edit: virtually) obsolete by the echo chamber.

[etherealtruth]

3. I feel the loss of Jennings ...

I do believe he tried to deliver the news (facts associated with the news) with as little bias as possible, he skimmed over or ignored the MSM stories du jour (Chandra, Laci ...) and most important of all -----he understood that we were all residents of ONE world (could make viewers understand why they should care about drought in Sub Saharan Africa ...)

As the article in your post points out, he was pretty amazing for a high school drop out.

[NJmaverick]

4. Amazing that conservatives never have to say they are sorry

for being wrong.