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 NEW YORK (AP) - After more than two decades in which Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather told television viewers nearly every major story, none of the men played a part in Saturday's special coverage of Pope John Paul II's death.
Brokaw and Rather had stepped down as the NBC and CBS chief anchors over the past five months, and Jennings was out sick Saturday.
The pope's death was something for which networks had been preparing for years and, more recently, anticipated as the pope's conditioned worsened over the past few days. CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC had been essentially holding an electronic vigil since late Thursday.
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