Smoking's bad, mmmmmkay?

So Peter Jennings has lung cancer, but he plans to keep working on World News Tonight.

I have just one question: are you nuts?

My station brought the chief of surgery from a well-known Detroit-based cancer center in for an interview yesterday, and he said that based on what ABC had released, he thought Jennings had a 50% chance of living one year, and about a 10% chance of living three years.

And you're going to spend that time sitting in an office building? Helllllooooo? You make $20 million per year, plus whatever your production company makes for you. That should last you and your family a while, don't ya think?

Dude, just spend the next two weeks recording PSAs (i.e. "If you smoke, you're an imbecile and this is what's going to happen to you"), interviews ("We need to do a better job of funding lung cancer research") and a primetime special/ lung cancer research fund-raiser. Then go sit on a beach somewhere nice.

If you want to do a report once a week, I'm sure ABC can get a camera crew to Fiji.

Hell, if you'd rather, just spend the time with your family. If I had a year (or so) to live, I'd want to see the world and make the most of my time, not just sit inside staring at a computer monitor.

But that's just me.