Schorr in USA Today
Our two FishbowlDC guest bloggers had different takes on USA Today’s article on Daniel Schorr.
#1:
NPR’s Daniel Schorr tells USAToday that blogs are “fascinating and scary.”
“What is good about it is people will not be able to suppress the news because you can always have a blogger who gets the story out,” Schorr says.
“But what we have here is a medium in which there is no publisher, no editor, no anything. It’s just you and a little machine and you can make history. I find that scary. Nobody should get into print or on the air without some kind of editor. I have an institutional belief that nobody can be above having a good editor.”
This town could use a blog with his knowledge and perspective and extraordinarily dry sense of humor. He could call it “Surviving the Pentagon Papers: There is Life After Nixon.”
#2:
Those who do not learn history…
USA Today media mix writer Peter Johnson talked to NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, who turns 90 next month. Schorr worked for CBS for two decades, and resigned in 1976 rather than reveal his sources on illegal CIA and FBI activities. He’s been with NPR since 1985, and they recently named a studio after him, making him the only broadcaster so honored.
How senior of an analyst is Schorr? He landed the first TV interview with Nikita Khrushchev, a spot on Nixon’s enemies list and was a colleague of Edward R. Murrow.
But, from the sound of things in the lead, a background in history is not a prerequisite at NPR:
“Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam? (Answer: Korea.)
But when one asked, “You covered the Spanish-American War, didn’t you?’ Schorr couldn’t help but respond, matter-of-factly: ‘That was 1898.’”
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