peter Jennings was a great new caster ,who come close to him?

Answer 1

Ol' Wally Cronkite was the best of 'em.

Answer 2

A great news caster? By whose standard? Seems pretty subjective if you were to ask me. I found him to be extremely opinionated. I want a news broadcaster to present the facts and nothing more. To make personnal commentary as he used to, was very unprofessional. Who comes close? Gosh, they all make their personnal opinions and views known (rendering them incredible). I'd have to say all of your "Big Name Anchors."
While I am not at liberty to disclose what "things" I did for this country, I can only tell you that I made a great bit of the history reported by Jennings and others like him in the latter half of the twentieth century. Generally speaking, they didn't report the events accurately. I'm sorry that I cannot offer up any substantiating facts to support my claims, I will only ask you to learn to put on your B.S. filters and read between the lines. Exercise your "Critical Thinking" mind and ask "Why." Don't accept anything you hear as being absolute fact. "News" is not one specific event, it's a never ending series of overlapping events. The "Wherefores and the Why's" are rarely as they appear and even less so when they are presented by someone with a political agenda to impart.

Answer 3

To be honest, I don't know. You've found a fellow Jennings fan in me. I was a Communications Major, and I have to say that everything I saw or heard about Mr. Jennings showed that he had strong ethics, and a dedication to getting his journalism as accurate as possible.

But what really won me to him was when I saw him covering the Space Shuttle disaster... I checked all three major networks. The other two (Rather and Brokaw) seemed so... mechanical. Jennings often had tears in his eyes, and fought back getting choked up once or twice, during the coverage. And even when he wasn't fighting that, there was this air of sorrow and compassion in his face and his voice, that really spoke to me. This wasn't just a story---he saw the people, and the tragedy it was. He was the same way during 9/11---and that was the first day he'd smoked a cigarette in years, but that day the stress was too much.

I miss Peter Jennings. According to things I've read from his staff, he was a tough, hard, picky taskmaster---but he was honest and true-blue dedicated to the standards of journalism. I wish we had more people like him in the major anchor seats, and in charge of the major journalism bureaus.

Answer 4

No one.