{"id":3156,"date":"2010-07-25T07:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2010-07-25T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T12:17:51","slug":"the-passing-of-a-real-journalist-and-one-of-my-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3156","title":{"rendered":"The passing of a real journalist and one of my heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Schorr was threatened with a $100,000 fine and jail time for contempt of Congress. But during congressional testimony, Schorr refused to identify his source, citing First Amendment protections. The House ethics committee voted 6 to 5 against a contempt citation.\">Daniel Schorr<\/a> RIP<\/p>\n<p>From the NPR Obituary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1976, Schorr reported on the findings of the Pike Committee, which had investigated illegal CIA and FBI activities. The committee had voted to keep its final report secret, but Schorr leaked a copy to the Village Voice, which published it.<\/p>\n<p>Schorr was threatened with a $100,000 fine and jail time for contempt of Congress. But during congressional testimony, Schorr refused to identify his source, citing First Amendment protections. The House ethics committee voted 6 to 5 against a contempt citation.<\/p>\n<p>But CBS had already taken Schorr off the air. He ultimately resigned from the network that year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CBS found that, like other big corporations, it did not like to offend the Congress,&#8221; Mudd said. &#8220;He broke his ties to CBS and before they could fire him, he resigned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Schorr RIP From the NPR Obituary: In 1976, Schorr reported on the findings of the Pike Committee, which had investigated illegal CIA and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}