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...beyond. When he returned as anchor in 1978, he advocated for more world news coverage even though it was unpopular. It was said at Jennings' death that the age of the "big three" anchors was over. But he was the least typical of the celebrity anchors. You watched Tom Brokaw for warm confidence, Dan Rather for folksy feistiness. But you watched Jennings for the news. That is what his viewers saw in his marathon Sept. 11 coverage--a calm, cool guide who put the story before the persona, who knew that we needed not his emotion but his information...
INDICTED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 40, a top Republican lobbyist enmeshed in ethics investigations of his close friend, House majority leader Tom DeLay; on unrelated charges of defrauding lenders in the $147.5 million purchase of a casino cruise line in Florida five years ago; in Fort Lauderdale...
...grief for Jennings, it's clear that he had long since won that respect. He worked his way from conflict to conflict, country to country, rising to Chief Foreign Correspondent at ABC before eventually retaking the job of fulltime anchor of World News Tonight in 1983. Along with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Peter Jennings formed the steady triumvirate of anchors that would preside over the American evening news for the next two decades. The three rivals had an unusually warm relationship, and when Rather retired as anchor this March, it was Jennings who insisted on a small farewell dinner...
...unions or affairs of these aforementioned celebrities are not only gossip rag fodder, but are also powerful forces in the most credible of national media outlets. The New York Times has reported on Tom Cruise’s disturbing antics and his cultish devotion to Scientology on more than one occasion...
...Ears for Tom Cruise, All Eyes on Brad Pitt,” a recent column by Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, who is also a Crimson editor, illustrated the disturbing lack of coverage of the crisis in Darfur as the American public is fixated on paparazzi photos of an emaciated Lindsay Lohan emerging from the Hollywood hotspot Mood...