Daniel Schorr

EULOGY

It might be said that Daniel Schorr's life was a synecdoche for the devolvement of American journalism. His work with the muckraker Murrow to the ill-fated Pike episode evinced the coziness that the press and government ultimately came to. Indeed, I'd argue that Schorr's firing after his leaking of the House's CIA report in 1975 was the beginning of the end of a useful and vibrant American press. These days the main stream media are little more than cheerleaders and fellow travelers.

To quote Jefferson: "The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure."

Daniel Schorr understood that necesiity and lived his life toward its fulfillment. I can't believe that the corporate-based main stream media will ever allow his like to emerge again.

Requiescat in pace.