I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms. I always ask people to b… - Peter Jennings

" "

I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms. I always ask people to be specific what they're talking about. You can't cover the Middle East — you can't cover American politics — you can't cover America these days without finding people in one place or another taking exception to what we do. I think it goes with the territory. Keeps me, at least I hope, mindful, always that there's at least one other opinion and sometimes a dozen other opinions. And they all bear accounting for. But not everybody is right you know because somebody says, "well you did X", and you say "well, maybe X is right in some cases".

English
Collect this quote

About Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (29 July 1938 – 7 August 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor on ABC World News Tonight from 1983 through April 2005.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings
Alternative Names: Peter Charles Jennings
PREMIUM FEATURE
Advanced Search Filters

Filter search results by source, date, and more with our premium search tools.

Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.

Additional quotes by Peter Jennings

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Add semantic quote search to your AI assistant via MCP. One command setup.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially — sorry it's a cliche — a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

Loading...