He was a great reporter because he got his hands dirty down where a story begins, reporting from the battlefields of Vietnam to the high palaces of Europe.
For six decades in journalism, spanning Ike to Obama, his work flowed from an awareness that the important thing was the story — not Morley Safer.
That’s not saying he wasn’t without ego. Most people in media are no shrinking violets. But his journalism was the tell. He reported, then he talked. It came as an affirmation that journalism only has value in the newness and relevancy it communicates, not in the fame and celebrity of those communicating it.
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