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Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84
CNN ^ | 5/19/2016 | Brian Stelter

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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To: Borges
Another article:
CBS News Legend Morley Safer Dies One Week After ‘60 Minutes’ Retirement

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.

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21 posted on 05/19/2016 9:34:55 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: heights

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?


22 posted on 05/19/2016 9:37:22 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Borges

He always sounded flemmy. It grossed my wife and me out when he spoke. Too much saliva. Maybe a heavy smoker?


23 posted on 05/19/2016 9:37:23 AM PDT by albie
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To: EveningStar

I saw that report last Sunday. Don’t retire, you’ll die.


24 posted on 05/19/2016 9:37:58 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: NorthMountain

Provide an example please. Just one.


25 posted on 05/19/2016 9:38:14 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: NorthMountain

God Bless him and his family during this awful time.


26 posted on 05/19/2016 9:38:33 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Not gonna take it anymore

I wonder if he retired because he was dying?


27 posted on 05/19/2016 9:40:02 AM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: NorthMountain

“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!


28 posted on 05/19/2016 9:41:52 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

I’ll say it again. “communist” is a strong word. Back it up.


29 posted on 05/19/2016 9:43:55 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Mears

God bless you. ;>)


30 posted on 05/19/2016 9:44:48 AM PDT by Gator113 (~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
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To: Borges

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.”


31 posted on 05/19/2016 9:44:55 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Borges

another Cultural Polluter meets his end


33 posted on 05/19/2016 9:55:21 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: dfwgator

I kinda knew something was up, especially when he didn’t appear on the 60 Minutes show... all they showed was an empty office.


34 posted on 05/19/2016 10:03:51 AM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: r_barton

That’s pretty much what Howie Kurtz said about an hour ago on FNC. “Safer retired because he was in poor health”.


35 posted on 05/19/2016 10:08:24 AM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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To: bigdaddy45

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.


36 posted on 05/19/2016 10:15:01 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: AppyPappy; Mears
For Pete’s sake, don’t retire. It’s a death sentence

Feel free to work into your 80s and you're on your death bed. Not an option I would consider, but go for it!

37 posted on 05/19/2016 10:15:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: NorthMountain

I have. Several. Some is crap, but some isn’t. Some is quite interesting.


38 posted on 05/19/2016 10:16:43 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Snickering Hound

“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.


39 posted on 05/19/2016 10:17:21 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Borges

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....”


40 posted on 05/19/2016 10:23:50 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
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