“I have to take you back to before 9-11,” Peter Jennings told a reporter from the Orlando Sentinel in 2003. “I used to go downtown a lot. What always pleased me, as a New Yorker, is that so many came to find that New York was different from what they anticipated. It was softer, more Read More
“In this business,” said Elizabeth Vargas, the 42-year-old co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, “we’re way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.”
With her almond-hued hair in a wild, off-air frizz, Ms. Vargas was curled up in an easy chair in her dimly lit office, where she Read More
George W. Bush lied about his military service record. The lie can be found in his own 1999 campaign autobiography (as written by Karen Hughes), where he dramatically describes his experience as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
On page 34 of A Charge to Keep, Mr. Bush Read More
Wednesday, Nov. 19
$ After he flew back to Baghdad on Thursday, Nov. 13, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III got on the Sunday talk circuit to explain the Bush administration’s timetable for turning authority in Iraq over to the Iraqis-and to attempt to counteract the appearance of quagmire syndrome.
At his last appearance, Read More
Wednesday 22nd
No more Newlyweds ?! Is there any point to fall? Oh, so what if Jessica’s a moron, and the supposedly “smarter” Nick is sucking honey from a beehive he just bombed with Raid, and there’s something immensely creepy about her dad, with his horrible highlight job, standing monitoring his daughter’s stiffening nipples Read More
Peter Jennings has tossed a Molotov cocktail into a bitter Upper West Side real-estate battle. The ABC newsman is charging that Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in America, is pulling strings to destroy the character of his neighborhood by erecting a 14-story residential building on West 70th Street next-door to its synagogue on Read More
Between the fog of war and the blizzard of media, everybody thinks they know everything, and nobody really knows anything.
What follows here are a dozen crucial developments to monitor in the upcoming weeks:
1) Under the new “Sneering Aliens Act,” Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings has been arrested, Read More
It’s an avalanche from the front.
Every day, television packages and ships home hundreds of stories from hundreds of war correspondents in Iraq. There are reports of American heroes. There are reports of American casualties. There are angry Iraqis. There are happy Iraqis. The other day on CNN, there was a Kurdish child named…Dick Read More
From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings surveyed the hushed crowd that had gathered at the May 8 memorial service for public-relations man John Scanlon. “Take a look around you this morning, and you will see the depth and the breadth of John’s connections.” Those who Read More
From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings surveyed the hushed crowd that had gathered at the May 8 memorial service for public-relations man John Scanlon. “Take a look around you this morning, and you will see the depth and the breadth of John’s connections.” Those who Read More
