Peter Jennings says TV news is past the "if it bleeds it leads" era but finds itself contending with another trend, "rooftop journalism."
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"To our peril. . .we in TV are obiged to get out the facts too quickly at the expense of the context," the ABC World News anchor said Thursday after receiving the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism in Cambridge, Mass. "They want us in Cairo on Tuesday and Calcutta on Wednesday."Jennings criticized journalists who only report on conflicts from atop a city's buildings, above war-ravaged streets. But he said he is encouraged by a trend in which TV news is becoming less sensational.