Monday, August 08, 2005

The Legend of Peter Jennings?

I have in my right hand the stories have the now late Peter Jennings, along with the memories of his newscasts. The exceptional speaking voice he had in my opinion along with the interviews he made to seem unatainable by anyone else. In my left hand, I have the impression of what a jerk he was period. The stereotypical arrogant ass he was potrayed to be in the right wing community. The slants in his newscasts, the omittance of certain facts, and the company he kept himself around; Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. Excuse me while my stomach churns.

We have absolutely no idea what Jennings was actually like in person, and considering majority of the viewing audience judges their evening news broadcast by content and quality rather than the facts of the content and an unbiased slant, we'll never actually know how GOOD Peter Jennings really was.

He dropped out of high school and never went to college, however, endlessly quizzed people on his neverending list of information. He had a memory that got him to where he was at his death but he will now always be remembered at the level of Rather and Brokaw and Ron Burgandy. With his ability to learn, imagine where he would have been with a college degree. He lacks credebility, to me, without the proof that he put forth the effort to learn everything about his field and depend solely on learning everything he could have the evening's top story.

In the death of Mr. ABC, there is now officially the end of an era, with Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and now Peter Jennings out of the spotlight, looking as fresh as a new suit to magnetize people to brainwash them with their words. Now there is the new generation of cable news and rotating anchors surrounding Bill O'Reilly, Shep Smith, and Larry King, which at any rate, all of these guys put their own slant in their stories and interviews to make the viewer hear what they want meaning that this will be a neverending cycle in mainstream media, if you haven't caught on to that already. Don't you remember your mother telling you not to believe everything you hear?

Oh, just so I can say I was part of the rhetoric: "It's a sad day for all members of the media with the death of Peter Jennings. His passing should be used as a platform to stop smokers from killing themselves. No one can fill his shoes. He was a poetic news anchor" oh God I have to stop myself before I sound like Bawbwa Waltwers.