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FuzzyRabbit

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23. Daniel Schorr

Reply to calimary (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 20, 2014, 05:20 PM

Aug 2014

Some time before his death, Daniel Schorr was interviewed on the radio. At the time Schorr was training some NPR news interns. He lamented that they all thought that Hollywood gossip and show business press releases were serious news. He was trying to teach them that news about Brangelina or whomever was not real news.

So a few nights later I was watching the news on Seattle channel 13 (Fox news) when a new young anchor read a news item about some movie couple breaking up. Then the older anchor said "On to some important news" and the young anchor replied testily, "You think that (referring to show business gossip) is not important?"

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