So, put aside all the things I say and think about hating mainstream corporate news. As a child, ABC news was a mainstay in the house. 6:30 was devoted to ABC news. I hated it then. But I would still sit there reading or cuddling with my mom who would read from the large stack of library books we got every week. Peter Jennings' voice was in the background talking about Regan or Oliver North. I always liked the end of the news show -- where it was more of a personal interest story, because he always sounded a little happier then. During 9/11, while other people I know were glued to NBC, I would watch ABC at home, wanting Peter to give me a sense of safety, of home. I never really thought that anchormen could do that. I truly thought, and still do, he is a good man. Yes, he probably read whatever was given to him, but the child part of me did not care. He was home, was the shelter, the safe filter to hear scary things I could not comprehend as a child.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Peter Jennings
So, put aside all the things I say and think about hating mainstream corporate news. As a child, ABC news was a mainstay in the house. 6:30 was devoted to ABC news. I hated it then. But I would still sit there reading or cuddling with my mom who would read from the large stack of library books we got every week. Peter Jennings' voice was in the background talking about Regan or Oliver North. I always liked the end of the news show -- where it was more of a personal interest story, because he always sounded a little happier then. During 9/11, while other people I know were glued to NBC, I would watch ABC at home, wanting Peter to give me a sense of safety, of home. I never really thought that anchormen could do that. I truly thought, and still do, he is a good man. Yes, he probably read whatever was given to him, but the child part of me did not care. He was home, was the shelter, the safe filter to hear scary things I could not comprehend as a child.
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