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On the Media

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🗓️ 5 May 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.
0:17.1	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:18.2	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:21.5	From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News tonight with Peter Jennings.
0:28.8	Nearly a week has passed since the passing of Peter Jennings, and in that time, his memory has been duly honored.
0:36.0	He was suave. He was cool.
0:38.2	He was exacting, unflinching, indefatigable, and in moments of genuine drama, genuinely
0:43.9	remarkable.
0:45.4	From the fall of the Berlin wall...
0:47.3	Someone actually reached up and handed me a small piece of the wall that they had chipped
0:51.1	away.
0:51.9	It's those small moments that make up this extraordinary day.
0:55.6	To the destruction of the Twin Towers.
0:58.0	It is a tragedy that has revealed itself before the eyes and millions of people in the country
1:02.7	watching on television.
1:04.3	To the failure of his own flesh.
1:06.7	As some of you now know, I have learned in the last couple of days that I have lung cancer.
1:11.1	I will continue to the broadcast on good days.
1:13.4	My voice will not always be like this.
1:15.4	But after April 5th, we heard his voice no longer.
1:18.8	On that evening, ABC News lost its anchor, and so did tens of millions of viewers,
1:25.0	who depended on Jennings not just for the Daily Report, but for all that
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