{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-19T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/wherehopelives\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-05-19T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T18:13:03","slug":"morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Morley Safer&#039;s Notebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRz4ucW-T_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Legendary correspondent Morley Safer of CBS\u2019 &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; died Thursday at his Manhattan home. He was 84. Safer, who announced his retirement a week earlier, also filed his last report in March after 46 years of service on the show. He Tweeted his fans after it was official he would be leaving the station. \u201cIt\u2019s been a wonderful run, and I want to thank the millions of people who have been loyal to our\u00a0@60Minutes\u00a0broadcast. Thank you!\u201d \u00a0Safer is one of greatest journalists of his generation. He joins an elite group of journalist like Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather. Born in Canada, Safer was awarded 12 Emmy&#8217;s, Peabody Awards, and awards from the Overseas Press Club Awards. Safer began his career in print working for wire services in Canada and later joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and joined \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Safer received his\u00a0break with CBS, and covered the Vietnam War, and became the\u00a0first journalist to film within China. This\u00a0broke barriers for other field reporters looking to expand coverage.<\/p>\n<p>He will be missed by CBS.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves said: \u201cMorley was one of the most important journalists in any medium, ever. He broke ground in war reporting and made a name that will forever be synonymous with &#8217;60 Minutes.&#8217; He was also a gentleman, a scholar, a great raconteur &#8211; all of those things and much more to generations of colleagues, his legion of friends, and his family, to whom all of us at CBS offer our sincerest condolences over the loss of one of CBS\u2019 and journalism\u2019s greatest treasures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Morley admitted that he didn\u2019t like being on the tube. \u201cI really don&#8217;t like being on television. I find it intimidating, discomforting. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hid it well. Farewell to another icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary correspondent Morley Safer of CBS\u2019 &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; died Thursday at his Manhattan home. He was 84. Safer, who announced his retirement a week earlier, also filed his last report in March after 46 years of service on the show. He Tweeted his fans after it was official he would be leaving the station. \u201cIt\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,3,4],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-60-minutes","tag-morley-safer","tag-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Morley Safer broke barriers for reporters and never backed-down from a challenge.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Morley Safer broke barriers for reporters and never backed-down from a challenge.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Where Hope Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-19T17:47:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-05-19T18:13:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Corine Gatti\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years","description":"Morley Safer broke barriers for reporters and never backed-down from a challenge.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"nofollow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years","og_description":"Morley Safer broke barriers for reporters and never backed-down from a challenge.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html","og_site_name":"Where Hope Lives","article_published_time":"2016-05-19T17:47:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-05-19T18:13:03+00:00","author":"Corine Gatti","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html","name":"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-05-19T17:47:53+00:00","dateModified":"2016-05-19T18:13:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#\/schema\/person\/3013f619d142ceac521a13c1921d991a"},"description":"Morley Safer broke barriers for reporters and never backed-down from a challenge.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2016\/05\/morley-safer-amazed-us-for-over-40-years.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Morley Safer Amazed Us for Over 40 Years"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/","name":"Where Hope Lives","description":"Beliefnet Voices - 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