Staying Tuned
A Life in Journalism
Sixty years of reporting, from Moscow and Watergate to NPR, by a correspondent who was never the insider people assumed.
Daniel Schorr reported for sixty years, from postwar Europe and Khrushchev’s Moscow to Watergate, where he read his own name aloud from Nixon’s enemies list on live television, and finally to NPR. The memoir corrects the impression that he was ever an insider: he was fired, blacklisted and repeatedly at odds with his employers.
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Guy Raz
What I didn’t know were the personal details. A lot of people thought of him as the consummate insider, always with a seat in the inner circle, always going to the White House and meeting with the presidents and getting background briefings. He wasn’t at all. He was the opposite of that. He was an outsider in almost every way. Even at CBS. Many of the guys he worked with at CBS were Ivy League patricians.
Interview · March 2011
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