Dan Schorr joins Frank for Night School in Hebbin.

[marc rosen]

More sad news.

Linkage:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_SCHORR?SITE=WBAL&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Pastage:

Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dead at age 93

By BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press Writer
Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dead at age 93

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr,
whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard
Nixon's notorious "enemies list" in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.

Schorr died Friday at a Washington hospital after a brief illness,
said Anna Christopher, a spokeswoman for National Public Radio, where
Schorr continued to work as a senior news analyst and commentator.

Schorr's career of more than six decades spanned the spectrum of
journalism - beginning in print, then moving to television where he
spent 23 years with CBS News and ending with NPR. He also wrote
several books, including his memoir, "Staying Tuned: A Life in
Journalism."

Schorr reported from Moscow; Havana; Bonn, Germany; and many other
cities as a foreign correspondent. While at CBS, he brought Americans
the first-ever exclusive television interview with a Soviet leader,
Nikita Khrushchev, in 1957.

During the Nixon years, Schorr not only covered the news as CBS' chief
Watergate correspondent, but he also became part of the story. Hoping
to beat the competition, he rushed to the air with Nixon's famous
"enemies list" and began reading the list of 20 to viewers before
previewing it. As he got to No. 17, he discovered his name.

"I remember that my first thought was that I must go on reading
without any pause, or gasp or look of wild surmise," he wrote in his
book "Clearing the Air."

"I do not know how well I carried off my effort to appear oblivious to
the discovery of my name on an ominous-looking list, but I count this
one of the most trying experiences in my television career."

Schorr's stories pointing out weaknesses of the administration's
programs so angered Nixon that he ordered an FBI investigation of the
reporter - saying he was being considered for a top federal job. That
investigation was later mentioned in one of the three articles of
impeachment - "abuse of a federal agency" - adopted by the House
Judiciary Committee against Nixon.

He said he figured he became such a thorn in Nixon's side because his
newspaper background gave him a bluntness rare on television and an
antagonism to the "stage-craft, image-making and slogan-selling" that
Nixon favored.

Schorr became part of the story once again in 1976, when he arranged
for the publication of an advance copy of a suppressed House
Intelligence Committee report on illegal CIA and FBI findings.

At the time, Schorr called it "an inescapable decision of journalistic
conscience" to see that the report ended up in print. To his surprise,
reaction from his own colleagues in the media was negative, because
Schorr had handed the report over in exchange for a donation to a
group that aids journalists in First Amendment issues.

The idea of "selling any document is intolerable for a newsman whether
it's for personal profit or for charity," Peter Lisagor, chief of the
Chicago Daily News' Washington bureau, said at the time.

Many reporters also found Schorr's silence troubling when another CBS
correspondent, Lesley Stahl, was wrongly accused of leaking the
report.

Schorr was suspended by the network and the House opened an
investigation of him, though it later dropped the case. He resigned
from CBS soon after that.

Well into his 90s, he was still giving commentaries on NPR. Pondering
the November 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, he cited the online
contacts between the suspect, Maj. Nidal Hasan, and a radical cleric.
He asked, "does the Internet merit some of the responsibility for
helping the violence-prone to fester there in communion with the
machine?"

Born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Schorr
began his career in journalism while he was still in high school. When
he wasn't working on the student newspaper, he spent his free time as
a stringer for the Bronx Home News and the Jewish Daily Bulletin.
During college, Schorr also worked part-time for several metropolitan
dailies.

Schorr first caught the eye of famed CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow
during his vivid reports on devastating flooding in the Netherlands in
1953. Murrow persuaded him to join the network, where he started out
covering Capitol Hill and the State Department beats.

After CBS, Schorr taught journalism at the University of California at
Berkeley, and then in 1979 he joined Ted Turner's newly created CNN as
its senior correspondent in Washington.

Soon after leaving the cable station in 1985 over differences with
Turner, Schorr found a home at National Public Radio as a senior news
analyst. He contributed regularly to "All Things Considered," and
other NPR programs.

Schorr is survived by his wife, Lisbeth, his son, Jonathan Schorr,
daughter, Lisa Kaplan, and one grandchild. Memorial plans have not
been set.

Eds: Corrects spelling of Lesley Stahl's first name, rather than
'Leslie'; Adds names of Schorr's surviving family members, no funeral
plans set. Moving on general news and entertainment services.

[Dave]

Article rejected: Not in suitable IF ... in Hebben format.

;-)

--Dave

[Hoodoo]

How many people were personal acquaintances of Edward R. Murrow, Nikita
Khrushchev, Frank Zappa and Richard Nixon?

NPR's Scott Simon Remembers Daniel Schorr
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128605615

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[Not-So-Big Al]

On NPR, they played an old interview with DS and he talked about his
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