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Daniel Schorr, Journalist, Dies at 93

It seems that Schorr has been with me my entire life.

As a kid, I saw him on NBC and then, through the years, as he gravitated from sharp reporting to his status as a practicing sage on public radio, I admired his work and heard him tell a kind of truth that we heard nowhere else.

If anyone is responsible for my lefty sentiments, he would be high on the list.

And yet, he was not a political guru. He reported. Truly.

You could draw your own conclusions.

He never conformed to the burnished, glossy, talking head personalities that later dominated the news cycle. The vacuous Ted Baxters of the media.

A little bit shlumpy and relentlessly NY Jewish, Schorr defied the template that was laid out for new guys and dominated the scene on his own terms.

He lived beyond 90! A hero. I hope he did it with all his wits about him and, if not, that he was happy in his final days.

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