Posted on 05/19/2016 9:17:13 AM PDT by Borges
Morley Safer, an intrepid storyteller and interviewer whose name became synonymous with the news magazine "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.
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Morley Safer—who, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Minutes—has died.
As a combat reporter in Vietnam, ducking sniper’s bullets and enemy mortars while embedded with American soldiers on patrol, “he was as cool as a hog on ice,” retired Brig. Gen. Joe Stringham, a former Green Beret commander, recalled for Morley Safer: A Reporter’s Life, an hour-long special that aired last Sunday.
Sounds like that report was truthful to me. Watched it just the other night. He had it on video.
What would you have done? Squelched it?
He always sounded flemmy. It grossed my wife and me out when he spoke. Too much saliva. Maybe a heavy smoker?
I saw that report last Sunday. Don’t retire, you’ll die.
Provide an example please. Just one.
God Bless him and his family during this awful time.
I wonder if he retired because he was dying?
“Yet another dishonest piece of crap from the days when the lying bastards in Big Media had a monopoly on disseminating information.”
Pretty much what I was thinking, the freaking communist!
I’ll say it again. “communist” is a strong word. Back it up.
God bless you. ;>)
As recounted in the “Encyclopedia of Television News,” Safer’s “1965 film report showing a marine at Cam Ne setting a hut on fire with a cigarette lighter almost single handedly ushered in the era known as ‘the living room war.’ President Lyndon Johnson was irate over the negative publicity Safer created concerning the Vietnam War and unsuccessfully pressured CBS to censor him.”
another Cultural Polluter meets his end
I kinda knew something was up, especially when he didn’t appear on the 60 Minutes show... all they showed was an empty office.
That’s pretty much what Howie Kurtz said about an hour ago on FNC. “Safer retired because he was in poor health”.
I don’t recall seeing ANY “60 Minutes” report on ANYTHING, EVER, that didn’t exhibit distinct leftist bias. I suppose some folks may cling to the belief that there are “good reporters” in Big Media. I don’t.
Feel free to work into your 80s and you're on your death bed. Not an option I would consider, but go for it!
I have. Several. Some is crap, but some isn’t. Some is quite interesting.
“That’s got to be one of the shortest retirements on record, he just announced his retirement this week.”
Wow. I wonder if keeping working helped him go as long as he could. RIP.
I hope somebody can find “A Few Minutes In Hell With Andy Rooney” that was posted after Rooney died. That was true comedy genius.
“Did you ever notice than nobody here has air conditioning? I used to think it was superfluous during my days on Long Island but it sure seems welcome now....”
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