THE DYSPEPSIA OF PETER JENNINGS

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March 23, 2003

The broadcast media have, by and large, done a terrific job since the beginning of the war.

One exception is ABC News - and not just because ABC failed to cut away from its moronic programming on Wednesday night to inform its viewers that a war was underway.

Friday night, Peter Jennings presided over an uninterrupted three hours of America-bashing, pessimism and anti-war agitation.

Jennings and Pentagon correspondent John McWethy both insisted, darkly, that Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department were "bitterly disappointed" by the way the war was going.

Jennings later interviewed Youssef Ibrahim, a radical Arab and profoundly anti-American journalist - who spent five minutes warning that the United States was reaping the whirlwind.

A correspondent in Jordan spent five minutes interviewing some guy who had studied in Hartford, Conn. - but who now says he would happily fly a plane into the World Trade Center.

Finally, Jennings turned the airwaves over for several minutes to two organizers of antiwar marches - who made long speeches and promoted Saturday's demonstrations - with no voice raised in support of the war.

It was a disgrace.

ABC would have served the nation better by airing reruns of "Are You Hot?"

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