so sad.  Mr Schorr, you will be missed.

tbridge:

mdt:

RIP Daniel Schorr.

Drafted into World War II…

Served in Army Intelligence…

Hired in 1953 as one of Murrow’s Boys…

Re-Opened the CBS Moscow Bureau in 1955 which Stalin had closed in 1947.

Interviewed Nikita Krushchev…

Was drugged for his trouble by the KGB…

Covered the building of the Berlin Wall…

Was on Nixon’s “Enemies” list (number 17)…

Won Emmys in 1972, 1973 and 1974 for his coverage of Watergate.

Exposed secret CIA assassinations diring the Ford administration…

Was the first on-camera employee hired by CNN…

And has been the Senior News Analyst at NPR since 1985…

Schorr was also an avid Tweeter and Frank Zappa fan…

Of his reporting method, which has covered every President since Dwight Eisenhower, Schorr once commented,

“My typical way of operating is not to stick a camera and a microphone in somebody’s face and let him say whatever self-serving thing he wants to say, but to spend a certain amount of time getting the basic information, as though I was going to write a newspaper story…. [I] may end up putting a mike in somebody’s face, but it is usually for the final and hopefully embarassing question.”

Schorr died on today at a Washington, D.C. hospital. He was 93 years old.

There are too few folks like this left.