Bye, Daniel Schorr

originally posted by SFJoe:
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I was listening to a tribute on NPR yesterday and it was amazing how many of the important events of the last half-century he was a part of. Like a real life Forrest Gump.
 
We oldsters go back a ways further than PBS in Daniel's career... As one of the many foreign correspondents who were vicariously covering Watergate via The Washington Post and CBS, he was a daily fixture, of maybe a fix, for me on the evening news. Sad to compare where TV journalism (and journalism 'tout court') were 35 years ago and where they are now.
 
originally posted by VS:
We oldsters go back a ways further than PBS in Daniel's career... As one of the many foreign correspondents who were vicariously covering Watergate via The Washington Post and CBS, he was a daily fixture, of maybe a fix, for me on the evening news. Sad to compare where TV journalism (and journalism 'tout court') were 35 years ago and where they are now.
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So very true.

I was probably reading him in the Post at that time, but I wasn't sensitive to bylines.
 
originally posted by VS:
We oldsters go back a ways further than PBS in Daniel's career... As one of the many foreign correspondents who were vicariously covering Watergate via The Washington Post and CBS, he was a daily fixture, of maybe a fix, for me on the evening news. Sad to compare where TV journalism (and journalism 'tout court') were 35 years ago and where they are now.
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Does TV journalism even exist anymore?

It's all so terrible.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I was probably reading him in the Post at that time, but I wasn't sensitive to bylines.
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No - I meant it was Woodward and Bernstein in The Post, Schorr and Rather at CBS. We foreigners didn't have the luxury of a 'deep throat', so we sheepishly followed those guys...
 
originally posted by VS:
originally posted by SFJoe:
I was probably reading him in the Post at that time, but I wasn't sensitive to bylines.
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No - I meant it was Woodward and Bernstein in The Post, Schorr and Rather at CBS. We foreigners didn't have the luxury of a 'deep throat', so we sheepishly followed those guys...
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Sorry, of course.

As I recall, we were a Huntley and Brinkley household, but I couldn't tell you why.

I did watch the Ervin hearings obsessively.
 
NPR ran a very touching obit on him. What greater accolade to accord him than the "Hostile Media" annotation beside his name on Nixon's enemies list?

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Actually, the NYT does a much better job:

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www.nytimes.com
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I was listening to a tribute on NPR yesterday and it was amazing how many of the important events of the last half-century he was a part of. Like a real life Forrest Gump.
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you mean he was there when Pascal Delbeck was escorted from the grounds of Ausone by security?
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by VS:
We oldsters go back a ways further than PBS in Daniel's career... As one of the many foreign correspondents who were vicariously covering Watergate via The Washington Post and CBS, he was a daily fixture, of maybe a fix, for me on the evening news. Sad to compare where TV journalism (and journalism 'tout court') were 35 years ago and where they are now.
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Does TV journalism even exist anymore?

It's all so terrible.
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fareed zakaria gps, sunday mornings on cnn. by a great distance the best show on tv covering international affairs.
 
Zakaria makes a good impression. I also like the Friday news round-up with NPR's Diane Rehm, when I can catch it. And, of course, there's always Sean Hannity.
 
Another real journalist gone, RIP Mr. Schorr.

This line from the Times was kinda creepy:

"Interviewed in 2008 for this obituary, Mr. Schorr continued to refuse to identify his source for the Pike committee report. "

I know they have a file of pre-written obits, but I didn't know they actually interviewed for them. "Hey, you don't look so good. How about an interview for your obituary?"

John
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I don't read news in France. I get back and this is what I find out. I want to go back to Violes. This is very sad news. I will miss him on NPR.
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Welcome back. Hope you enjoyed France.
 
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