July 24, 2010

From CBS.com:

Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS News got him on President Richard Nixon’s notorious “enemies list” in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.

Schorr died Friday at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital after a brief illness, said his son, Jonathan Schorr.

Daniel 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 National Public Radio, where he worked until he died. He also wrote several books, including his memoir, “Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism.”

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In 2006, JewishJournal.com interviewed Schorr:

Jewish journalism has its risks, as veteran newsman Daniel Schorr has pointed out.

Addressing a Jewish audience in Los Angeles some years ago, Schorr recounted that his first professional job, in the mid-1930s, was as a correspondent with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in his native New York.

He eventually quit and moved on to CBS and fame because, he said, “I became aware that I was looking at everything through a Jewish lens.”

There are other dangers in covering the Jewish world. They include indigestion and glazed eyeballs from too many testimonial dinners, the wrath of machers who do not suffer criticism lightly and the unforgiving grudges of VIPs whose names were left out of the story.

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