NewsMax: Network Snub: ...ABC anchorman Peter Jennings, for instance, begged off on making the trek - saying he was "feeling under the weather," according to the New York Post.
Then the NY Post: ...Although the pope's death is arguably the television news story of the year, network news divisions are treating it like just another funeral Mass.
ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings — the last of the Big Three still on the air — was feeling under the weather and stayed home.
It was announced Jennings has lung cancer. Get well Peter.