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Originally Posted by Elspode
Whenever there was a crisis in the world, it was ABC to which I turned. Even in his absence, ABC retained the "ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings" title, honoring the man who we hoped would soon return to both inform and...somehow...reassure us.
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It could be argued that Peter Jennings was another victim of 11 September. Those days were so tramatic for him that he restarted smoking. Smoking that he was told would kill him. Smoking that he blamed for his illness.
An anchor's number one job is to hold a reporters feet to the fire - to get facts correct the first time. More than any of his peers, and as noted in recent comments by Diane Sawyer, Peter's ability to do so were legendary in the industry.