If the anchorman in "Broadcast News" had been based on Peter Jennings, it would have been a very different movie. In the movie, the producers in the control room talk to the anchor in his earpiece ...

Peter Jennings was known ... with its long term implications. Jennings was on the air for 60 hours that week, in what The Washington Post described as a “Herculean job of coverage.” He invited Abrams ...