> USA Today: "The era of the Big Three anchormen may be ending, but Jennings will be remembered as one of the best of an age when knowledge, dedication and style counted for a lot."

> Dallas Morning News: "In that sense, his passing brings to mind a defiant line from the film Sunset Boulevard: Peter Jennings was big. It's the newscasts that got small."

> Washington Post: "No three men will ever again deliver the news to an entire nation with such Jovian authority."

> Orlando Sentinel: "For more than two decades viewers benefited from" his "natural curiosity."

> Rocky Mountain News: "Jennings never got to say farewell to his longstanding audience at the time of his choosing, a right he had earned after 22 years..."