Daniel Schorr Covered World for 60 Years

(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, "CBS Evening News" Anchor Katie Couric reports.

(Scroll down to watch Katie Couric's remembrance of Daniel Schorr)

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."

[bankersvox]

As recent as June 8 2010, this guy had the nerve to call the Israel legally protecting themselves as a
"hate blockage" , on NPR.


What a small man.

[Bigskybulge]

Oh, you mean he was not particularly beholden to any faction or nationality when speaking of truth, yes? If that makes him a small man, may we all be more diminutive.

[bankersvox]

hate is hate. He reserved it for those he knew were decent. And easy targets. What happen to real journalists ?

[bankersvox]

THE TRUTH IS : SMUG UTOPIAN

One of he most biased so called "reporters" in modern history.


Never saw a Communist he did not like.


A Nixon hater, who went on to Bash al things Republican, including R. Reagan.


Was he was a " Red Diaper baby." ? Could have been, Never ventured out of the upper East Side of NYC, mentally.


Helped set CBS and then PBS (where he was in constant praise of the PLO - thus giving the name Palestinean Broadcast System ) - up as solid Left Wing tools. Was surrounded by similar Lefties. Smug. Hate filled. Not telling the full truth. Slanted reporting.

LOOK ----- THINK ABOUT THIS ....Never saying he was sorry for opposing RR for combating and confronting Communists, this guy, and others of his ilk, will be remembered by fellow "media slobs" as someone who was true to his 'ideals".... But I must ask, as others have ... farily.... no matter the outcome, proven wrong by history ? They were all on the wrong side of decency and history ....


Sadly, blinded by media power, He thus prolonged the oppression of the Peoples of Eastern Europe by his unending support of all things dictatorial in Communists control. A member of the UTOPIAN DREAMER SOCIETY, where facts do not matter.


I remember hearing his so called "Editorials" on PBS. It was guaranteed that no matter the facts, or the latter outcome, he would support a basically anti- American LEft Wing agenda, never once being on the sides of Democracy or freedom fighters behind Communists lines, or on the side of decent regular folks, or achievers in society. Smug ? You betcha. But he had plenty of company egging him on, they all worked at CBS, NBC, ABC.

Again sadly, he was one of those people, who was Sincere in his idiocy, smug about it, and probably never knew personally anyone who voted for Nixon.

Insular.

And thus, to all an emblematic of CBS.

He was probably a nice man.

I am writing this as we, the people deserved better. The dream of Bill Paley was not this.






Given that, he will be held up as a model

[bobbof]

Your comments are made up of accusations, innuendos, and jingoistic catchphrases to draw out reactionary responses, but you haven't written much in the line of solid facts. Talk about shades of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, could you be any more transparent in your motives?

[servorum]

God bless Daniel Schorr for a lifetime of service to the truth.