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Peter Jennings has Died in the last 24 hours.

As a person who works in the TV industry, the news is something that is sacred to us. It's a steady job, a thing that will always be there. Trusted, untrusted, fabricated, wrong, right, write. It'll be there. It's an outlet for the highest technology and production values.

Peter Jennings was the doorway for me into looking at the news broadcast as a possible avenue for jobs. His book "Century" was one of the best non-fictions I read and actually got me to think about non-fiction as something to read and not research for a report.

However, the best thing about him was this one time on the news. He stopped the broadcast long enough to say "there are more important things going on, but I want to show you this footage of Spain's parliment". The B-roll footage showed the parliment member start cracking up one-by-one until the entire courthouse was laughing it's collective head off. It's these moments, the sheer "Laugh, Stupid!"-ness of it. That sealed the deal and I knew that I could be a part of tv.

Peter Jennings 1938-2005
Rest in Peace

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