Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, August 08, 2005


We had a miserable hunch Peter Jennings would not come back to work. What astonishes us is that only a year ago the big three seemed an insuperable force, a rock of Gibraltar. Now here we are. Whatever one thinks of the nightly-news anchormen -- and we've been inclined to think not much -- we cannot deny these three were all conscientious and diligent even on their salaries, and Jennings overcame a pretty-boy rep to become one of the most respected men in the biz. This sadness marks the end of an era, an era when, whatever its manifold shortcomings, network news was watched, when we could get our daily information fix in quiet dignity and not at the O. K. Corral. Now it's just (as the WaPost slugged it today) "entertainment news," and another irrelevance. We're not necessarily better for it.

P. S. And speaking of manifold shortcomings, here's how the news stupidly broke in the insufferable CORNER:

ABC is reporting (via Drudge).

We'll venture a guess Peter Jennings never spread SPYWARE.

(Cretinous NRO link fixed 11/10/2007; see related post for that date)

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