37 thoughts on “Morley Safer, actual journalism practitioner, 1931 – 2016

          1. Hmnnngnh, if you don't like the boss' politics you have, thanks to the Dixie Chicks, the First Amendment freedom to go work somewhere else.

            Home Depot sucks, though.

    1. LBJ called the president of CBS after the Safer report on troops torching villages ran and told him Safer "shat on the American flag". Wingnuts to this day believe journalists lost us that war.

      1. David Halberstam did some courageous reporting there, too. Probably those reporters changed the course of the war's history.

      1. Haha, still holding on to those antique notions about "privacy." As I was reading something on Facebook the other day…

  1. A lesson to all us oldsters. I sold Lot_49 & Associates at the end of 2011 and have never regretted it.

    Pretty sure Safer enjoyed what he was doing. It always seemed that way.

  2. Not to worry. The stents are in place, the Lipitor is working, and la Signora_Quarantanova holds my wine consumption to the bare minimum.

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