Peter Jennings has lung cancer

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still waiting for more info. just heard it on npr.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

This is the thread where you post why Peter Jennings is meant to be with you forever and ever

Maybe not forever...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

terrible!

also terrible: "Charlie Gibson ... will be substituting for Peter as necessary"

ARGHGHGH!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

ABC News says chief anchorman Peter Jennings is diagnosed with lung cancer
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Jennings, the chief ABC News anchorman for more than 20 years, has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will begin outpatient treatment next week, the network said Tuesday.
Jennings, 66, has been feeling ill for the past several months and was replaced Saturday on coverage of the Pope’s death by anchor Charles Woodruff. He last anchored World News Tonight on Friday.
Jennings informed ABC News staff of the diagnosis Tuesday morning and said he will anchor the broadcast when he feels up to it over the next few months as he begins chemotherapy.
“There will be good days and bad, which means some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky,” he told ABC News employees in an e-mail.
Jennings, who was born in Toronto in 1938 and raised in Ottawa, began his broadcasting career in Canada. At the age of nine, he hosted his own weekly children’s show on CBC Radio.
In 1962, he became co-anchor of the CTV newscast, before moving to New York to join ABC-TV News. Jennings became a U.S. citizen in 2003, but still retained his Canadian citizenship.
Charles Gibson, who’s in Rome for the Pope’s funeral, and Elizabeth Vargas will be Jennings’ primary substitutes on the evening news.
Jennings first anchored ABC’s evening newscast for two years in the 1960s, and was a Europe-based correspondent for the network after that. He started again as an anchor as ABC tried a multi-anchor format starting in 1978, then took over the broadcast himself in 1983.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Bah. Very annoying. It's a bit flippant to call any newsanchor a personal hero -- for all I know the guy's horrible in real life -- but in terms of my news-junkie nature he was pretty much the voice of the eighties for me. After that I switched to CNN and then to the Net for my news fast food fix, but I won't deny where it started.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I thought this said Pat Jennings.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Is he a smoker?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Yep, longtime smoker. I dunno if he *still* smokes, but I know he did in the near past.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

This is all the blogosphere's fault.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Please don't smoke, kids.

― Rand D. Butterstein, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

He's near death, apparently. ABC is arranging a press conference in around 30 minutes' time.

Still waiting for Drudge to shove up his sirens, though.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Jeeps. :-/ My sentiments above remain the same.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

oh no!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

holy shit

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I want to remember him healthy, vital and fading out to a laxative advert, not like this.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

when did he stop working? wasn't he on the air as recently as a few weeks ago?

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 7 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

awww! this is quite sad!
i had no idea...
bah :(

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 7 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

what?! i didn't even know he had cancer. this is sad.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

how come no news sites have picked this up? i see one article on google news search, and the link isn't working to it...

― gear (gear), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

because it appears to be all rumor at this point, I guess.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

That'll teach me to believe in the power of the blogosphere.

Hope he holds out for as long as he can.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Hope he holds out for as long as he can.

If I had terminal cancer, I would want to go quickly.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Well, you know what I mean. And - though, yeah, I sound like a hypocrite here - hopefully with as little intrusion from the likes of Michelle Malkin as possible.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Dead, according to Drudge.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

CNN.com has the news as well.

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Peter Jennings Dies at 67. RIP.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

and ABC has Koppel on now talking about it.

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 August 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Gone. RIP.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 8 August 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Jesus. The tribute ABC's running is very moving.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 8 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

A shame. Like I said, he was pretty much my voice and face for the news for many years, and I think did so very well. RIP indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Smoking sucks.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 8 August 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

i remember how my dad watched him every night around dinner time. he was, like ned said, the voice and face of the news to me. RIP

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

RIP
D :

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

When Sarah and I were snowed in during Denver's worst snowfall for 90 years, the US decided to invade Iraq, and Peter Jennings, who I'd never heard of before then, was the most reassuring, serious and comforting anchorman during the constant, scary news bulletins. What a terrible shame.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 August 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

How long before they play up the fact that he was a longtime smoker, and that this wasn't just some fluke?

Jennings was always easily my favorite of the big three.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

He surely was hardly unaware that it was his smoking that led to it; it's obviously no fluke but that makes it no less regrettable.

An enjoyable tribute from a BBC reporter.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

peter jennings was like some weird balm for me..his even measured tone of speaking and his often critical eye towards dc policy and the way he apparently chased th ladies w a drink in one hand and a cig in th other.maybe cuz he was canadian and had a non-hysterical way of reporting everything..he comforted me like a cathode blanket and there really isnt any other reporter like that...i will get my news from th net now i suppose..Good night not so funny man wherever yu r

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

this two hour special on ABC here is really quite powerful

― gear (gear), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

That's the first time that I had seen the exact moment replayed where I saw the first tower fall. It felt exactly the same as it did nearly four years ago.

I liked how they showed moments where he fucked up as well, such as Election Night '84. David Brinkley still rocks my world, from the grave.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

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