RIP Daniel Schorr
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:18 pm
I have grown away from NPR in the last 7 or 8 years, but I always liked Daniel Schorr's take on the weeks news on Saturday Morning. His last bit that I heard (Sat. July 10th) was that people shouldn't be guilty of contributing to the BP Oil spill if they drive a car because they/we haven't been given any viable alternative!
I edited out the name of the writer of the story because she is not worthy of reporting on his death!
Now all NPR has to give 'perspective' to their stories is the right wing moron, Juan Williams, who I lost all respect for when he was downright giddy when Bush II was going to win via the Florida Court/ Supreme court. Now it's only indy media for me. My favorite is KBOO 90.7FM Portland Oregon: http://kboo.fm/ Lots of crazy stuff, the morning lineup is Democracy NOW @ 7AM and then stay with them until noon for the news and public affairs. Some really good stuff.
I edited out the name of the writer of the story because she is not worthy of reporting on his death!
Now all NPR has to give 'perspective' to their stories is the right wing moron, Juan Williams, who I lost all respect for when he was downright giddy when Bush II was going to win via the Florida Court/ Supreme court. Now it's only indy media for me. My favorite is KBOO 90.7FM Portland Oregon: http://kboo.fm/ Lots of crazy stuff, the morning lineup is Democracy NOW @ 7AM and then stay with them until noon for the news and public affairs. Some really good stuff.
Daniel Schorr Covered World for 60 Years
Remembrance: Veteran Broadcast Journalist Who Worked for Edward R. Murrow, Persuaded Khrushchev to Appear on CBS Dies at 93
Veteran reporter-commentator Daniel Schorr, 93, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard Nixon's notorious ``enemies list'' in the 1970s, has died.
* One of the longest careers in broadcast journalism came to an end Friday. Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr died in Washington. He was 93.
One of the longest careers in broadcast journalism came to an end Friday. Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr died in Washington. He was 93. (CBS)
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* CBS News, NPR Veteran Daniel Schorr Dies at 93
(CBS) One of the longest careers in broadcast journalism came to an end Friday. Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr died in Washington. He was 93.
Obituary: CBS News, NPR Veteran Daniel Schorr Dies at 93
Schorr had covered the world for more than 60 years, spending 24 of them at CBS News.
Edward R. Murrow recruited Schorr to work for CBS in 1953. As a correspondent in Moscow, he persuaded Nikita Khrushchev to give CBS his first television interview. Later, Schorr became a member of the storied CBS News Washington Bureau.
"He had a great way of irritating government officials because he always came up with the truth," said CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer. "He came up with these stories. People couldn't figure out how he got it."
Schorr led CBS News coverage of the Watergate scandal. When he got a hold of President Nixon's infamous enemies list, he read it cold on live TV and was stunned to hear himself say, "Number 17, Schorr, Daniel … a real media enemy."
Born in the Bronx the son or Russian immigrants, Schorr was brilliant, brash and abrasive. He clashed not only with government officials but news management and left CBS in the uproar that followed his leaking of a congressional report about questionable activities by the CIA.
In 1979, Schorr joined the fledgling CNN and in the mid-'80s moved to NPR, where he worked until his death.
In his later years, he wrote, "Stormy as it was, I wouldn't trade my career for anyone else's."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/23/eveningnews/main6707648.shtml