Daniel Schorr Quotes

United States, Journalist
August 31, 1916 – July, 23, 2010.

Daniel Louis Schorr was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr
- Fake
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

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- Trying

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

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- Good
- Alone
- Deep
All news is an exaggeration of life.

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- Life
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

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- Men
- Country
- Trying
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Daniel Schorr
- Good
- Care
- Doubt
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Daniel Schorr
- People
- Present
- Abuse
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Daniel Schorr
- Power
- Secret
- Secrecy