OT Morley Safer has died

[czxqa]

At 84 after a long illustrious career. His retirement announced last week was due to a long illness; he was recently moved from a hospital to hospice care.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/media/morley-safer-death/index.html

 

[Mr_Twister]

The broadcast journalism retirement equivalent of Bear Bryant and Joe Paterno, both of whom passed shortly after retirement. R.I.P. Morley.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

RIP

 

[RU4Real]

It's nearly impossible to come up with the right words to pay tribute to a man who, as a wordsmith, surpassed us all.

His stories were the ultimate achievement in broadcast journalism - poignant, clever and brilliantly presented.

In this day of internet "journalism", it's easy to predict that his like will never be seen, again. He will be missed.

 

[Beancounter88]

Always professional to the maximum and just a great interviewer, which is a lost art. In their heyday with Rather, Safer and Wallace, it was the best news show in history. And by a wide margin.

 

[czxqa]

During the Vietnam war, Safer was embedded with the Marines and reported on the burning of Cam Ne, with live footage. When CBS news aired his report with the live footage it sent shockwaves through the country. Lyndon Johnson wanted CBS to fire him.
Years later Safer wrote this piece for PBS on that watershed moment:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/safer/camne.html

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

88 Ed Bradley. Tim Russert. As much as we denigrate the media there have been some who we listened to even if we didn't always agree with them .

 

[Rokodesh]

RIP Mr Safer

 

[RU Husky]

He wrote an excellent account of his return visit to Vietnam in 1990 called "Flashbacks." In his introduction he wrote, "Each witness to Vietnam has his own set of "flashbacks," his own scrapbook of conflicting verities. As different as each is, they all seem to point to the same conclusion: We are all still imprisoned, to one extent or another, by that place and that time."

On this, and so many other things, his insights were very much appreciated.

. RIP