These are the folks many rely on for news and views. I weep for the future generations….
60 years later, NPR’s Schorr is still a ‘precious resource’
Contact Peter Johnson at pjohnson@usatoday.comDaniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam? (Answer: Korea.)
But when one asked, "You covered the Spanish-American War, didn’t you?" Schorr couldn’t help but respond, matter-of-factly: "That was 1898."
"Oh, sorry, of course," the younger man said, excusing himself.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2006-07-24-media-mix_x.htm
Spanish-American War, Spanish Civil War…very different wars, and only one was in Spain. At 90, Shorr could have first-hand knowledge of Spain’s civil war, but certainly not the war that made Teddy Roosevelt famous. Still…it could have been a slip of the tongue, meaning one and saying the other…or it could have been total blind ignorance from a media news producer.
This is government-supported NPR – our tax dollars at work.
I’m continually surprised at what people don’t know and don’t bother to research in this age of information. Too bad we don’t have a system of compulsory education in this country…
Oh, wait…we do, right?
