Peter Jennings

On Thursday evening, near a window in a banquet hall overlooking the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Times Square, Andy Rooney sidled up to a makeshift bar and asked for a bourbon.

No bourbon, explained the bartender. Wine?

Mr. Rooney shook his head no, furled his massive white eyebrows, and shuffled off into the crowd. The barkeep, having just witnessed the potential genesis of a future Andy Rooney rant on 60 Minutes (“The problem with cocktails parties today, is that there are no cocktails…) kept a straight face.

A few minutes later, Mr. Rooney stood nearby a plate of cured meats and talked with The New Yorker's Ken Auletta about football. "We're both Giants fans," explained Mr. Auletta. NYTV, who sports a terrycloth Redskins bathrobe at home, looked for conversation elsewhere.

We had gathered on the second floor of Disney's Times Square Studios at 44th and Broadway to celebrate the newly published book "Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life," which bills itslef as "an intimate portrait of the late, legendary journalist and news anchor, in the words of his family, friends, and collagues."  read more »

After Peter Jennings's death I made the Pepsi switch to NBC because Brian Williams seems real and knows how to turn a phrase. Tonight, though, he lost me with a report on a movie about Flight 93, a movie in which NBC has a financial interest.

What a manipulative piece of pap. The report began with people expressing shock and dismay at the graphic trailer for the film. Then it moved to survivors of the victims of Flight 93, to claim that they were being healed by the film. Dawn Fratangelo signed off—

a reality too grim for some moviegoers, but too important for loved ones left behind.

In short: another ad, disguised as reporting. Brian, baby, be real.

New languages are discovered every year, and “goodbye” is a lousy word in every one of them.  read more »

New languages are discovered every year, and “goodbye” is a lousy word in every one of t  read more »

Admit it!  read more »

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Ever since news organizations became queasy about the use of unnamed sources—the legions of lesser  read more »

To the Editor:    read more »

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Wednesday, Nov. 19 $ After he flew back to Baghdad on Thursday, Nov. 13, Ambassador L.  read more »

Wednesday 22nd No more Newlyweds ?! Is there any point to fall?  read more »

Peter Jennings has tossed a Molotov cocktail into a bitter Upper West Side real-estate battle.  read more »

Between the fog of war and the blizzard of media, everybody thinks they know everything, and nobody  read more »

It's an avalanche from the front.  read more »

From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St.  read more »

From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St.  read more »

On the evening of Nov.  read more »

Ten years ago, the assertion that Peter Jennings, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and their ilk were t  read more »