[MUSIC FADE] BROOKE GLADSTONE: Broadcast veteran Daniel Schorr died this week at the age of 93. Over the five years I was senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and, later, All Things Considered, I was often his editor. When he yelled at me, I felt like I had arrived. I sat across from him a dozen times as Scott’s fill-in host. When he made fun of me, I felt like part of broadcasting history, because that’s what Dan was – a courageous, cranky monument to a courageous, cranky business, when business is good. As public radio listeners, you will have heard the highlights of Dan’s history by now – opening CBS’s Moscow Bureau, making Nixon’s enemies’ list, earning his first five bucks as a reporter in 1928 at age 12 when he saw the body of a woman fall from the roof of his apartment building and called The Bronx Home News. But he was no stone monument. He knew self-importance was an occupational hazard, so he was glad to punch holes in it. That’s why we'll celebrate him with this. When CNN’s Anderson Cooper was rumored to be developing his own cologne, called “Coop,” we dreamed up an ad of our own.
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WOMAN: The sounds of your life captivate you.
DANIEL SCHORR: For the regime that was denounced by President Bush to be able to summon the superpower to the conference table is clearly a feather in the cap of the Tehran government. But surely there must be something more involved in this unusual flirtation.
WOMAN: Daniel!
DANIEL SCHORR: Hear me.
WOMAN: Daniel!
DANIEL SCHORR: Smell me.
WOMAN:
Daniel!
FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Shore - an incisive fragrance from news analyst Daniel Schorr, at fine retailers everywhere.
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