NPR Commentator of 25 years, Daniel Schorr died at the age of 93. He was the last of the crew to pass away that legendary journalist Edward R Murrow had hired. I certainly would have liked to hear what Murrow, a straight news reporter, would have had to say about Schorr, who turned from reporter to Leftist political hack and liar pretending to present the news.
His most egregious reportage happened during Goldwater's run for the presidency in 1964. Goldwater had mentioned during his campaign that he might take some vacation time in Germany. Here's what Schorr reported on the eve of the Republican Convention:
“It looks as though Senator Goldwater, if nominated, will be starting his campaign here in Bavaria, center of Germany's right wing” [also known as] “Hitler's one-time stomping ground.” “Thus, there are signs that the American and German right wings are joining up. Now back to you, Walter, and have a nice day!" Full article here.
He was pretty much disliked and tossed out by CBS, CNN, Eisenhower, Nixon of course (he was on the Nixon enemies list), and was under investigation by The House Ethics Committee for leaking government documents by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Leaking intelligence reports...he was just ahead of his time; NY Times does that now as a matter of policy.
After no one in private sector journalism would hire him, he landed a government job at NPR telling Leftist lies unopposed. I think NPR needs to hire a conservative commentator for the next 25 years to balance it out.
Full but biased obit here. (Mentions little of what a Leftist scoundrel he was.)
Now some words from a real journalist, Edward R Murrow:
"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful."
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
"We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply." ~ This I Believe (1951)
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular." ~ See It Now (9 March 1954)
"It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other." ~ Speech to Radio and Television News Directors convention at Chicago (15 October 1958) (Current news readers should note this as they call any conservative or Republican a racist or 'teabagger', Jennings "America threw a temper tantrum" when his side lost an election, and all the rest of their hateful vile commentary that passes for news.
"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."
"Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live." ~ Speech to Radio and Television News Directors convention at Chicago (15 October 1958)
Murrow had the wisdom and insight Schorr lacked to be a good journalist. Schorr gave all that up for blind Statist ideology.
Daniel Schorr RIP
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