Sad to hear. He was one of the good journalists - he reported honestly, he kept his opionions mostly to himself, and unlike posers like Brian Williams, Bob Simon didn't embellish his reporting from war zones. In fact, he was tortured by the Iraqis.
Numbers 6:24-26
He was on the level of NBC’s Tom Brokow, the later whom once he retired, I stopped watching the NBC Nightly News right after that.