Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84

May 19, '16, 9:46 am

didymus Veteran Member Radio Club Member   Join Date: April 5, 2005 Posts: 10,387 Religion: Catholic

Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 NY Times: Quote: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 NEW YORK — Morley Safer, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans' view of the war, died Thursday, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS News publicist.No further details on his death were immediately available. Safer, who once claimed "there is no such thing as the common man; if there were, there would be no need for journalists," was 84. "60 Minutes" aired a tribute to Safer on Sunday after he announced his retirement earlier this month. In 1970, Safer joined "60 Minutes," then just two years old and not yet the national institution it would become. He claimed the co-host chair alongside Mike Wallace. During the next four decades, his rich tobacco-and-whiskey voice delivered stories that ranged from art, music and popular culture, to "gotcha" investigations, to one of his favorite pieces, which, in 1983, resulted in the release from prison of Lenell Geter, an engineer wrongly convicted of a $50 holdup at a fast food restaurant who had been sentenced to a life term. Rest in peace. __________________ It's not hoarding if it's BOOKS.

#2   May 19, '16, 11:19 am

tawny Veteran Member Greeter Prayer Warrior Forum Supporter Book Club Member   Join Date: November 10, 2013 Posts: 29,860 Religion: Roman Catholic/OFS

Re: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 Praying for the repose of his soul & for his family. __________________ May the Holy Spirit forever guide you throughout life's journey. Pax et Bonum

#3   May 19, '16, 11:48 am

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Re: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 Praying. __________________ http://www.themostholyrosary.com/15promises.htm Seven Sorrows of Mary Promises and Devotion http://www.themostholyrosary.com/appendix1.htm

#4   May 19, '16, 12:19 pm

esieffe Regular Member   Join Date: July 26, 2013 Posts: 3,723 Religion: Roman Catholic

Re: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 Wow. I can't imagine TV without Morely. He has been reporting things to us since I was in the first grade. Rest in Piece Morley. Attached Thumbnails   __________________ “The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.” – Saint Francis de Sales http://www.angelicwarfareconfraternity.org/ Major help with your fight for purity. "Ecumenism is the enemy of the Immaculata" Saint Maximilium Kolbe

#5   May 22, '16, 2:32 pm

Dwyer Regular Member   Join Date: February 26, 2007 Posts: 1,361 Religion: Byzantine Catholic

Re: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 Honestly, I'm personally really tired of all the foreign journalists imported to the U.S. and working in American TV News. Safer was Canadian; so was ABC's Peter Jennings. CNN's U.S. Desk has several Australian news anchors. Piers Morgan was from the U.K. To my knowledge, there are no TV News Anchors or even Reporters working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada. The BBC I think just has a handful of American reporters, and to my knowledge no American anchors. I mean, can't the U.S. Cable Networks find qualified American journalists who speak English to fill the TV News jobs? __________________ "It's a free country; you can say whatever you want." --Old American Saying (U.S. Postal Service stamp-- from 1977 Americana series which extols freedom of speech and features a Speaker's Stand decorated with an American Flag shield.)

#6   May 22, '16, 7:36 pm

didymus Veteran Member Radio Club Member   Join Date: April 5, 2005 Posts: 10,387 Religion: Catholic

Re: Veteran '60 Minutes' Newsman Morley Safer Dies at 84 Quote: Originally Posted by Dwyer Honestly, I'm personally really tired of all the foreign journalists imported to the U.S. and working in American TV News. Safer was Canadian; so was ABC's Peter Jennings. CNN's U.S. Desk has several Australian news anchors. Piers Morgan was from the U.K. To my knowledge, there are no TV News Anchors or even Reporters working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada. The BBC I think just has a handful of American reporters, and to my knowledge no American anchors. I mean, can't the U.S. Cable Networks find qualified American journalists who speak English to fill the TV News jobs? By jingo, you're right! We need a wall on our northern border too. These crafty Canadians come here speaking our language, looking like us, eating the same food -- how diabolical! /sarc __________________ It's not hoarding if it's BOOKS.