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“My dad was part of the pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada. And he always told me the most important thing you can be in your career is fair.”

Peter Jennings

In response to the question "Is it impossible to be totally objective?"
Larry King Interview (8 September 2003)
Context: My dad was part of the pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada. And he always told me the most important thing you can be in your career is fair. So we all start to see a box and hope that we see the box in the same way. But you recognize in time that people see the box or they see traffic accidents in entirely different ways. So you train yourself over the years to try and give accounting to the variety... and come to some decent place in the middle. But I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Parting

“We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.”

Peter Jennings

Criticism "goes with the territory"

War , People , Way , Behavior

“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.”

Peter Jennings

Interview in Anchoring America: The Changing Face of Network News (2003) by Jeff Alan

People , Home , History , Communication

“I don't think the public realizes how much soul-searching goes on in news organizations about what is the right thing to do.”

Peter Jennings

Criticism "goes with the territory"

Soul , Search , Thinking