USA Today: Turning 90, NPR's Daniel Schorr still a ‘precious resource'

[DeepModem Mom]

60 years later, NPR's Schorr is still a ‘precious resource'
The media mix By Peter Johnson

....Daniel Schorr, NPR's senior news analyst, turns 90 next month....“I never expected to be working now, but I'll take it,” says Schorr, whose commentary airs four days a week. He credits his longevity to genes and his wife, Lisbeth.

For 60 years now, Schorr has been living and breathing the news, starting in 1948 as a stringer for The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times in Europe.

He spent more than two decades at CBS News, which ended turbulently when CBS asked for his resignation in 1976 after he refused to reveal the source of secret documents, which he made public, regarding illegal FBI and CIA activities. The network later asked him to return, but he refused and later joined Ted Turner at CNN.

Schorr landed the first TV interview with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and won three Emmy Awards (and a spot on President Nixon's “enemies list”) for his CBS Watergate coverage. But “his greatest contribution has come after a lot of other eminent journalists had left the fray,” says Harvard media analyst Alex Jones. “He is a wise old man with all his buttons, and that is a precious resource.”

Last week, NPR — Schorr's home since 1985 — renamed Studio 2A, where he and Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talk about the news, The Daniel Schorr Studio. It is the network's only studio named in anyone's honor....

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20060725/d_mediamix25.art.htm

[Buck Laser]

1. I look forward to Dan Schorr's opinions every day.

He has an amazing ability to cut the core of the issue and raise the critical questions. And he doesn't hesitate to say "no" if he hasn't thought about an issue. He's an inspiration to all us seventy-somethings!

[SoCalDem]

2. Sadly, he and so many others will be leaving us soon

and we have been deprived of seeing them front and center for decades. Instead we have been "treated" to right wing zealots ..

Think of where we MIGHT be right now if the tabels had been turned...

Just removing the rightward slant and tipping it back to center would have made for a much more pleasant place to live... and if their opinions had been the prevailiing view..who knows?

we could be enjoying universal health care....affordable college....higher wages....more unions....less outsourcing.....smarter presidents....less war.... better schools.... affordable-renewable energy....a secure social security system....fair elections....

you know.. small insignificant things

[bigtree]

3. I just heard his report this Sunday and I had the same thought

precious