I’m flying to San Antonio, Texas this morning. Blogging will resume around noon. Scroll down for memories of Peter and the rest of the day’s news-about-the-news.
| Peter Jennings nurtured the ABC News staff, and now they will “carry on the tradition,” David Westin says. “Jennings was a teacher:” & other memories and messages. “If only Peter were here now,” Michael Eisner and Robert Iger say: “With his succinct eloquence, he could find the words to describe the depth of our sorrow and loss.” “It seems so unfair,” Dan Rather says. Aaron Brown remembered Peter on a special edition of NewsNight. “Jennings was a pain in the butt…and I really liked him,” Bill O’Reilly reflects. |
“It is difficult for us to talk about Peter in the past tense.” —Charles Gibson on Monday’s WNT Send your memories of Peter Jennings to tvnewser@mediabistro.com. > ABCNews.com has devoted a section of its Web site to Jennings. |