ABC’s Jennings Accused of Marxist Leanings

By Fred Jackson

A former foreign correspondent with ABC News is accusing the network's best-known anchor of displaying a pro-Marxist bias.

Peter Jennings and ABC News have been sharply criticized in recent weeks for the network's coverage of the Iraqi war. Many conservatives believe the Disney-owned news agency has a bias against the Bush Administration.

Now a former correspondent with ABC, Peter Collins, has gone public with allegations that Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Collins, who covered Central America for ABC during that period, tells Cybercast News that Jennings personally dictated changes in a Collins television script, describing the Sandinista government as “a new unselfish society.” The changed script also emphasized that the “Reagan Administration saw the Sandinistas as a threat and forced them into a war with the U.S.-backed Contras.”

Collins says he and Jennings had several other editorial disputes &#0151 and he believes those were the reason he eventually lost his job at ABC.

(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)