Daniel Schorr
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"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.

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Forgive Us Our Press Passes.

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

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All news is an exaggeration of life.

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Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.

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To equate America with reality and truth, and get people overseas to accept that.

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I'm delighted about it myself, because I'm no longer primarily a television person. I love seeing that the people who exercised that absolute control have lost it, thanks to technology.

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I think it's fair to say that the promise of confidentiality is based on the confidence that what you're being told is true, ... You lose right to any confidentiality if you lie. Sources are whistleblowers - they're people who'll tell you the truth to change something.

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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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I had to fight to keep reality on television, ... Most of the time I lost.

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