In my three years at ABC, Peter Jennings always stood out as a generous and perceptive soul to many of the best at the network.
In what has become an all too often cutthroat business that takes the easy story over hard work, passion and dedication, and which places an increasingly heavier thumb on the sobering scale between corporate careerism and public service, Peter’s legacy celebrates much of what is good in journalism.
He was kind and encouraging and a leading light not only for network TV news, but those journalists whose lives he touched in the past four decades.
Peter will be sorely missed and long remembered.
I will think of him in his canoe on the St. Lawrence — perhaps a martini close by — many loved ones in his heart and always sensing another good story of the world around the bend.