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Posted on 05/19/2016 9:38:28 AM PDT by Morgana
Morley Safer, an intrepid storyteller and interviewer whose name became synonymous with the newsmagazine "60 Minutes," has died. He was 84.
Safer was the longest-serving correspondent in "60 Minutes" history. He joined the CBS program in 1970, just two years after it launched, and worked there ever since, contributing 919 reports over the years. He filed his last report in March.
CBS announced Safer's retirement last week and televised a special hour-long retrospective about his career on Sunday. The timing of the announcement was partly due to Safer's poor health.
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Moral of this: If you don’t want to die, don’t retire from your job?
Maybe he retired because he was dying of something?
Andy Rooney died the week after he retired. Don’t retire from ‘60 Minutes’, it will kill you.
“He filed his last report in March”
...his last propaganda report in March.
I’ve known several people, one in particular, that did not last. He was in his mid 70’s. Both physically and mentally strong. He could wrestle a 20 year old kid to the ground.
He never lasted a year after retirement.
For many a job is their life, it’s their identity, it’s their purpose.
I am healthier after retirement, but another killer is when your spouse dies, which is something I personally could not take, and would prefer to precede her for the depression would finish me off.
“Moral of this: If you don’t want to die, don’t retire from your job?”
There is something to be said about that. I worked for a utility a number of years ago. Like clockwork, virtually every lineman that retired was dead within 5 years of doing so.
I guess the message is don’t retire.
News legend? Maybe news actor or fabricator...but hardly a legend.
A statue in his honor will be erected in Ho Chi Mein City.
Safer earned is MSM cred as a young reporter with CBS in Vietnam. In August 1965, he reported on the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines’ burning of the Village of Cam Ne, near Danang. It contained those famous shots of Marines lighting grass huts on fire.
On the other hand, the Marines had taken fire and casualties from the area of the village, discovered tunnels and spider holes, booby traps, etc... In fact they also had been instructed to raze the village by the local South Vietnamese commander.
Some, not all of this, was reported by Safer, but what was important at that time were the images of US soldiers burning huts, and old men and women being arrested by the Marines.
Safer, like others at that time - Wallace, Ellsberg, Halberstam, Woodward - earned their stripes and benefited from the political agitation of the period.
“Maybe news actor or fabricator...but hardly a legend.”
I dunno. Seems like lots of his new reports had more legend in them than fact....”News Legend” seems like the category he specialized in.
The father of ambush “journalism”?
What's sad is that most folks associate this with Nixon, rather than with LBJ. It's as if Nixon was solely responsible for the Vietnam War.
The message is don’t be stupid and work in some meaningless job until your in your 80s on your death bed.
For most Liberals, Nixon started the war in Viet Nam...
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