Peter Jennings quotes - page 3

On 9/11, those of us who do the jobs that I do, flew without a net for hour and hour and hour after end. And then you hope and pray that you've had the experience to be up to it. (Peter Jennings)
So you train yourself over the years to try and give accounting to the variety... and come to some decent place in the middle. But I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. View quote
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You can't cover the Middle East - you can't cover American politics - you can't cover America these days without finding people in one place or another taking exception to what we do. I think it goes with the territory. Keeps me, at least I hope, mindful, always that there's at least one other opinion and sometimes a dozen other opinions. And they all bear accounting for. View quote
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My dad was part of the pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada. And he always told me the most important thing you can be in your career is fair. View quote
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I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms. View quote
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You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end. When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that - of that scope - what extraordinary changes there have been. View quote
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Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service. View quote
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George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. View quote
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I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it. View quote
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I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. View quote
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There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, "Ah, it's those damn liberals," and a whole group of liberals saying, "It's all those damn conservatives"... If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong. (Peter Jennings)
I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms. I always ask people to be specific what they're talking about. You can't cover the Middle East - you can't cover American politics - you can't cover America these days without finding people in one place or another taking exception to what we do. I think it goes with the territory. Keeps me, at least I hope, mindful, always that there's at least one other opinion and sometimes a dozen other opinions. And they all bear accounting for. But not everybody is right you know because somebody says, "well you did X", and you say "well, maybe X is right in some cases". View quote
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Peter Jennings

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Photo: Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Canadian-American Journalist
Born: July 29, 1938
Died: August 7, 2005
Quotes count: 62
Wikipedia: Peter Jennings

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