PAGE 14A Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ■ Saturday, July 24, 2010 www.yankton.net Longtime Journalist Daniel Schorr Dies At Age 93 BY BRETT ZONGKER game,” Schieffer said. “Oh ... He incidentally is on — another CBS correspondent, and the Soviet Union, former CBS suaded him to join the network, Associated Press Writer “He was a model for us all,” you don’t, shouldn’t get involved Lesley Stahl, was wrongly accused colleague Dan Rather said. where he started out covering Schieffer said. “I’ve never seen in this, but he’s on our tax list, of leaking the report. Schorr was “In Washington, he prided him- Capitol Hill and the State WASHINGTON — Daniel Schorr, anybody who just enjoyed report- too,” Haldeman said. suspended by the network and the self on being an outsider, not an Department. whose journalism career over ing a story as much as he did. He “Good,” Nixon replied. House opened an investigation, insider,” Rather said. “He didn’t After CBS, Schorr taught jour- more than six decades landed him just loved it.” “They’re going after a couple of though it later dropped the case. work the social circuit. He worked nalism at the University of in the dark corners of Europe dur- Schorr reported from Moscow, media people,” Haldeman said. He resigned from CBS soon after. his shoe leather and his tele- California at Berkeley, and then, in ing the Cold War and the shadows Havana, Bonn, Germany and many “They’re going after Dan Schorr Well into his 90s, he was still phones.” 1979, he joined Ted Turner’s newly of President Richard Nixon’s noto- other cities as a foreign correspon- and (Pulitzer Prize-winning giving commentaries on NPR. He Born in New York City to created CNN as its senior corre- rious “enemies list” in the 1970s, dent. While at CBS, he brought Washington Star columnist) Mary was last heard on the air waves Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, spondent in Washington. has died. He was 93. Americans the first-ever exclusive McGrory.” July 10, on NPR’s “Weekend Schorr began his career in journal- Soon after leaving the cable Schorr died Friday at television interview with a Soviet “Good,” Nixon said again. Edition” with Scott Simon in a dis- ism while he was still in high station in 1985 over differences Washington’s Georgetown leader, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1957. The recording was made avail- cussion of the U.S.-Russia spy school. When he wasn’t working with Turner, Schorr found a home University Hospital after a brief ill- During the Nixon years, Schorr able by the University of Virginia, swap, the Justice Department’s on the student newspaper, he at NPR as a senior news analyst. ness, said his son, Jonathan not only covered the news as CBS’ which is transcribing and annotat- lawsuit against Arizona and other spent his free time as a stringer He contributed regularly to “All Schorr. chief Watergate correspondent, ing the secret Nixon tapes. news of the week. for the Bronx Home News and the Things Considered,” and other Daniel Schorr’s path through but he also became part of the Schorr said he figured he Simon called working with Jewish Daily Bulletin. During col- programs. the news business began in print, story. Hoping to beat the competi- became such a thorn in Nixon’s Schorr “one of the great blessings lege, Schorr also worked part time He received three Emmy then led to almost three decades tion, he rushed to the air with side because his newspaper back- of my life.” for several metropolitan dailies. Awards, among other honors that in television with CBS News and Nixon’s famous “enemies list” and ground gave him a bluntness rare “He had no boss but the First After serving in Army intelli- include a Peabody in 1992 for “a the fledgling cable network CNN. began reading the list of 20 to on television. Amendment,” Simon said. “He felt gence during World War II in lifetime of uncompromising report- By the time of his death, he viewers before previewing it. As Later in life, Schorr cherished his duty was to the news.” Louisiana and Texas, he worked as ing of the highest integrity.” He was best known as a longtime sen- he got to No. 17, he discovered his his Nixon coverage, his son said. Schorr spoke in a thick New an editor in New York for the was inducted into the Hall of Fame ior news analyst and liberal com- name. “He had nothing more than the York accent he never lost, a voice Dutch news service ANETA and of the Society of Professional mentator on National Public “I remember that my first truth to go up against the presi- that contrasted sharply with the was a freelancer in Europe for Journalists in 1991. Radio. He also wrote several thought was that I must go on dent of the United States,” the stentorian style of many newscast- numerous newspapers and Schorr is survived by his wife books, including his memoir, reading without any pause, or younger Schorr said. ers of the 1950s and 1960s. It made ANETA. of 43 years, Lisbeth, his son, “Staying Tuned: A Life in gasp or look of wild surmise,” he Still, he and Nixon were his delivery all the more com- Schorr first caught the eye of Jonathan Schorr, daughter, Lisa Journalism.” wrote in his book “Clearing the “extremely cordial” by the end of pelling. famed CBS newsman Edward R. Kaplan, and one grandchild. Bill Moyers, who like Schorr Air.” Nixon’s life, Jonathan Schorr said, He was very good at develop- Murrow during his vivid reports Funeral Services will be held had stints at CBS News and in Schorr’s stories pointing out “and my dad loved that.” ing sources surrounding the Cold on devastating flooding in the on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Adas Israel public broadcasting, said Schorr weaknesses of the administration’s Schorr became part of the War, in the United States, Europe Netherlands in 1953. Murrow per- Congregation in Washington. was a model of integrity. programs so angered Nixon that story again in 1976, when he “At NPR, he exemplified the he ordered an FBI investigation of arranged for the publication of an very best of public broadcasting the reporter, on the pretext that advance copy of a suppressed by refusing to be intimidated by he was being considered for a top House Intelligence Committee either official funders or partisan federal job. That investigation was report on illegal CIA and FBI find- thugs who besieged the brass in later mentioned in one of the three ings. protest of his honest reporting,” articles of impeachment — “abuse At the time, Schorr called it “an Quite Simply... Moyers wrote Friday in an e-mail. of a federal agency” — against inescapable decision of journalis- “With razor-sharp wit, personal Nixon. tic conscience” to see that the courage, and love of our craft, he In White House recordings report ended up in print. To his distinguished himself and journal- from 1971, Nixon and Chief of Staff surprise, reaction from his own No one does Mortgages ism.” Bob Haldeman discuss a tax inves- colleagues in the media was nega- CBS “Face the Nation” host Bob tigation of Schorr in the Oval tive, because Schorr had handed ďĞƩĞƌƚŚĂŶŵĞ Schieffer said if not for Schorr, he Office. the report over in exchange for a doesn’t know what reporters “You take a fellow like this Dan donation to a group that aids jour- would have done to get stories Schorr, he’s — I notice — he is nalists in First Amendment issues. about Watergate. “When Watergate always creating something, isn’t Many reporters also found came along, he kept us in the he?” Nixon said. Schorr’s silence troubling when 605-668-0800 IMMEDIATE OPENING! 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