… Safer, who had been in declining health, watched Sunday’s program from his Manhattan home, CBS said, and shortly thereafter tweeted what would be his last dispatch: “It’s been a wonderful run, and I want to thank the millions of people who have been loyal to our 60 Minutes broadcast. Thank you!”
ABC: Viewers didn’t need to see Morley Safer’s reporting to feel its effects.
They could have almost heard the yowling from the Oval Office and the Pentagon after Safer’s 1965 expose of a U.S. military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans’ view of the war.
They may have felt a flush of gratitude on learning that Safer’s 1983 investigation of justice gone awry resulted in the release of a Texas man wrongfully sentenced to life in prison.
Perhaps they headed to their wine shop with a heightened sense of purpose after word spread of Safer’s story that quoted medical experts who said red wine can be good for you. MORE
DGAS.
He’ll still be voting for Hillary.
A liberal to the last. Had the good form to work to 84, then die according to central planning before he can claim his Social Security. Well done, Comrade Safer!
My 7th decade memory suggests that I once thought Safer was OK, but I haven’t seen his stuff in almost 30 years. I stopped watching 60 minutes not long after their unconscionable fraudulent bogus report on the Audi 5000 car, claiming that it was prone to “unintended acceleration.” The report included a shot of the accelerator pedal moving on its own, but it turned out that this was complete rigged (compressed air tank on passenger, wacky mods to auto tranny). Audi sales in the US tanked and didn’t recover for about 15 years, and every lawsuit brought against them failed. Every real auto expert said the same thing: when you step on the gas pedal thinking it is the brake pedal, you will go forward. Duh. They also showed that in that car, if you have your foot on the brake, putting the accelerator to the floor will result in…brace yourself…a stalled engine.
Safer wasn’t the reporter. Ed Bradley was, and the whole thing was OKed by Hewitt. I stopped watching the show and tried to convince anyone who’d listen to stop as well.
Morley led the way for the new America: work until you die.
Jane Fonda in a suit. Good luck getting into heaven.
Smoke a 1000!
I wonder how much bullshit was shoveled into the minds of America before real info was made available on the web?