Peter Jennings is dead.

[tjdee]

I am shocked....he was my favorite anchor. He became my go to guy for big events-- he was there all day on 9/11, he was there in December of 2000....

how sad. :cry:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. He wasn't retired was he?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. He had stepped away from the anchor desk for a while ...

because he was being treated for Lung Cancer . He was far from retiring . He was diagnosed with lung cancer in April of 2005 .

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. Sad indeed .

He was the only news anchor who I trusted with the news . I remember watching ABC news all the time when I was a little kid even into my current twenties . He will be missed .

[delhurgo]

3. I can't believe it.

He had a silky smooth delivery, and was incredibly intelligent.

It seems like it happened so fast. I thought for sure he'd get chemo, or whatever, and recover, or at least live many more years.

This seems like it happened over the course of just a year. Seems like it happened so fast. I'm shocked.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. Me too .

Me too ...

[Lex]

4. Thread going

here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3813191

[Wetzelbill]

7. that's really too bad......

makes me sad. I grew up listening to Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. Now they are all gone from the networks, Peter in such a tragic way. I feel really sad right now.

[lpbk2713]

8. I liked his coverage of the conventions.

[regnaD kciN]

9. The last of his breed...

...newsanchors with dignity.

:-(

[Floogeldy]

10. He was great.

RIP, Mr. Jennings.

[chookie]

11. oh no

This appeared as a rumor yesterday, and I was really pleading "SAY IT AIN'T SO"!

This is a terrible loss. I'd admired him since his days in London, and he was always the guy I turned to when the world experienced a crisis. He produced many specials over the years in which he tried very hard to educate Americans about the background of conflicts and current events.

Watching him nightly, I noticed -- probably 2 years ago, that he was showing disturbing symptoms -- trouble with his throat mainly -- and in the last year he was obviously having breathing difficulties. When he appeared on the Daily Show, he was obviously seriously ill. When he announced his illness, I understood that the prognosis was poor. He faced his illness like a man and fought hard.

I feel terrible.

RIP dear Peter. PS Your nickname was Peter Perfect.

[ForrestGump]

12. I didn't even know he was sick

Can't have been too old, either.

He was my favorite of the big three, at least back when I used to now and then check out the US network news. Never took to Brokaw, and Danny Boy was a tad too intense unless I was in the mood for some psychotic-tinged entertainment: Peter Jennings always seemed the most thoughtful, the most balanced (in a good way...this is another word that's had the meaning drummed out of it), and came across as the most introspectively intelligent. I instinctively trusted him -- not necessarily the facts, facts that we've seen become increasingly warped throughout US news media, but his own conviction that what he was saying had validity.

Rest in peace.

[Floogeldy]

13. So you think that Dan Rather's broadcasts were psychotic-tinged?

Psychotic-tinged entertainment?

Do tell.

[ForrestGump]

14. Dan could get pretty wound up

Don't get me wrong: I loved it when that happened.

But it was a tad manic at times.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Wow - that was quick

I just read that he was sick only one or two days ago.

Sheesh!