Kind of figured after they announced his retirement that it wouldn’t be long.
Yet another dishonest piece of crap from the days when the lying bastards in Big Media had a monopoly on disseminating information.
meh
“In 1965, he opened the CBS News bureau in Saigon. That year he followed a group of United States Marines to the village of Cam Ne, for what was described as a “search and destroy” mission. When the Marines arrived, they gave orders in English to the inhabitants to evacuate the village. When the homes were cleared, the Marines burned their thatched roofs with flamethrowers and Zippo lighters. Safer’s report on this event was broadcast on CBS News on August 5, 1965, and was among the first reports to paint a bleak picture of the Vietnam War. “
One of the local conservative talk radio show persons I listen to, Jim Vicevich, has someone who does voice inpersionations of famous people. Mr. Safer’s was one of them.
“I was not able to attend the funeral, but will send a nice note saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
RIP
Trouble is he pretended to be a reporter.
ML/NJ
I wonder what kind of chains this Morley forged in life that he will carry forever.
I have not watched 60 Minutes since Bush 41 was in the White House.
I had presumed Morley Safer had died long ago.
How sad-—he was way too young.
(I’m 83)
:-)
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That’s got to be one of the shortest retirements on record, he just announced his retirement this week.
Good one more Propagandist dead.
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.
He always sounded flemmy. It grossed my wife and me out when he spoke. Too much saliva. Maybe a heavy smoker?
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 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....”
Well, we're all certainly safer now
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Storyteller is appropriate. Journalist is mostly not.