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| Long Time Anti-American Journalist Daniel Schorr Dead |
| 2010-07-23 |
| Schorr was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Tillie Godiner and Gedaliah Tchornemoretz. He began his journalism career at the age of twelve, when he came upon a woman who had jumped or fallen from the roof of his apartment building. After calling the police, he phoned the Bronx Home News and was paid $5 for his information. In 1955, with the post-Stalin thaw in the Soviet Union, he received accreditation to open a CBS bureau in Moscow. In June 1957, he obtained an exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist party chief. It aired on CBS's Face the Nation, Schorr's first television interview. In January 1962, he aired the first examination of everyday life under communism in East Germany, The Land Beyond the Wall: Three Weeks in a German City, which The New York Times called a "journalistic coup". Schorr reported—incorrectly—that Barry Goldwater was said to "travel to Germany to join-up with the right-wing there," and visit "Hitler's one-time stomping ground" in Berchtesgaden, immediately after he became the Republican nominee for president. For obvious reasons, this did not fare well with Goldwater, who demanded an apology for the "CBS conspiracy" against his campaign for president. Schorr attracted the anger of the Nixon White House, and later provoked intense controversy in 1976 when he received and made public the contents of the secret Pike Committee report on illegal CIA and FBI activities. Called to testify before Congress, he refused to identify his source on First Amendment grounds, risking imprisonment. Schorr died on July 23, 2010 at a Washington, D.C. hospital. He was 93 years old. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #14 He was that creaky old voice they'd wheel out on NPR of late, right? The amount of time I've spent listening to NPR in the last 10 years is probably shorter than the time I've typed this. And I'm a fairly quick 10 fingered typist. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2010-07-23 21:25 |
| #13 But Stahl, who felt he had fingered her ..... was furious. ya know?....tu? you are evil. But so was Schorr. Whenever I heard his voice I immediately knew something that would hurt America was coming, and probably based on lies and half-truths, like my editing above. Schorr would've approved. To the POS, I'm glad you're dead. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-23 19:46 |
| #12 If you can find out where Lesley Stahl's drinking tonight, she'll probably buy a few rounds... When he turned to CBS for help, however, he did not get an immediate answer, so he offered the report to the Village Voice, a left-leaning weekly newspaper in New York. The Voice published a 24-page supplement with the headline: "The Report on the CIA That President Ford Doesn't Want You To Read." The low point during this time came when Schorr "dissembled" — his word — by not disabusing a CBS executive of the notion that perhaps Lesley Stahl, who worked with Schorr and who was then engaged to (and later married) Village Voice writer Aaron Latham, was involved in getting the report to the Voice. Schorr said later that he was stalling for time in order to figure out how best to protect the person who had given him the report. But Stahl, who felt he had fingered her or Latham as a thief, was furious. Their colleagues took her side. Though Schorr called Stahl to say he was sorry, his behavior engendered so much ill will that he was no longer welcome in the Washington bureau where both had been working. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-23 19:32 |
| #11 so.. what drink should I toast his passing with.... I am kind of at a loss.... ? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-07-23 19:18 |
| #10 Piss on his grave that is. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-23 17:44 |
| #9 I expect fuckhead will deny getting the ticket to hell. No.... me? fuck no... Ima WhiteHouse Corresponendent! Good, glad you're gone. Carry your agenda with you. And yes, I am. And yes I damn will. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-23 17:43 |
| #8 God damn but he did hate us good.... most of his damn breathing time was devoted to what we did wrong and why. I LOL hope his memory LOL is a blessing to his LOL progeny. tl;dr good riddance |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-23 17:40 |
| #7 I'd like to say someting nice about him. But I can't. Dance with the Nazis fuckhead. Also say hai to bobby byrd. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-23 17:37 |
| #6 When we look back on a man's accomplishments during his life, his was reduced to four very short paragraphs. All four showing his lack of honor. He will not be missed. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-23 17:10 |
| #5 History will teach that Daniel Schorr was a “journalist”. In reality, ever since his ink stained wretch years he was what’s commonly known as a “news analyst”. That’s the niche of the profession that weaves opinion and speculation into a narrative and then masquerades itself as news. It was always ironic when Schorr would regularly voice his contempt for the low standards of “modern journalism”. Especially considering he was one of the early pioneers that not only made it acceptable - he helped create it. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-07-23 17:00 |
| #4 "Schorr reported--incorrectly" Yup, that's Schorr. I don't know if the good die young, but lately it seems the evil |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-23 16:51 |
| #3 Nixon made him. If he doesn't get on the enemies list, he's just another commie worshipping network foreign correspondent, which are a dime a dozen. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-23 16:45 |
| #2 Maybe we should take up a collection to have him buried in some communist bastion of glee- Like North Korea. Why spend 93 years in a country you hate? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-23 15:49 |
| #1 rest in hell |
| Posted by: chris 2010-07-23 15:11 |