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		Journalists love to praise their own. And this week, with the death of newsman <strong>Daniel Schorr</strong>, all of the various criteria for journalistic heroism are on display: The true-blue news star must be portrayed as relentless (he was known for &ldquo;aggressive reporting over 70 years,&rdquo;&nbsp; explains the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/business/media/24schorr.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em></a>&rsquo; lede), tough on the powerful (&ldquo;provoking presidents, foreign leaders, the KGB, the CIA,&rdquo; says the <em><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072303146.html?wprss=rss_nation&amp;sid=ST2010072303210" target="_blank">Washington Post</a></em>) and almost as unpleasant to his own superiors (&ldquo;defined by a willingness to stand up to those in power &mdash; even when they were his bosses,&rdquo; notes <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40157.html" target="_blank">Politico</a>.) <br />
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<img style="padding-right: 10px; max-width:630px;"width="401" hspace="6" height="270" align="left" src="/media/image/cbs5.jpg" alt="Daniel Schrr" />The obit portraits of Schorr are generally consistent across media outlets: An unhappy son of Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, he became one of CBS&rsquo; &ldquo;Murrow&rsquo;s Boys&rdquo; in the early days of the Cold War. Career highlights include an expulsion from the U.S.S.R. (the <em><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/daniel-schorr-unflinching-broadcast-journalist-who-became-a-thorn-in-the-side-for-both-the-soviet-and-us-authorities-2037776.html" target="_blank">Independent</a></em> has the lengthiest quote from the disrespectful Khrushchev interview that did him in), a spot on Richard Nixon&rsquo;s &ldquo;Enemies List&rdquo; (Schorr began reading the list on live TV the moment he got it, and was surprised to find himself at number 17) and a tumultuous firing from CBS (he leaked to the <em>Village Voice</em> a secret report about CIA misdeeds that he believed his own bosses were downplaying). <br />
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Schorr famously refused to name his CIA-report source when called to testify before Congress. The papers disagree, though, on whether colleagues viewed him as a true journalistic martyr. The <em>New York Times</em> says that &ldquo;editorial and public opinion swung in his favor&rdquo; following the scandal involving the top-secret 1976 Pike Report. Not so, says the Post, which declares that &ldquo;the national press did not hail him as a hero,&rdquo; in part because colleagues thought he allowed blame to fall wrongly on fellow CBSer Lesley Stahl.<br />
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Also buried in the <em>New York Times</em> obit is another interesting nugget: Schorr wanted to work at the Gray Lady rather than CBS, the piece says, but was kept off because the paper was wary of too many Jewish bylines. No other major obit mentions that.<br />
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Following his firing from CBS, Schorr became CNN&rsquo;s first star; after a 1985 flame-out with Ted Turner, he made his way to NPR, where he served as a news analyst and crafted an unlikely identity as a &ldquo;sweet old grandfather,&rdquo; according to &ldquo;Weekend Edition&rdquo; host Scott Simon&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128605615" target="_blank">lengthy obit</a>. (Simon makes clear that this reputation wasn&rsquo;t something everyone agreed on: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s never been sweet,&rdquo; Mike Wallace is quoted saying.) <br />
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Schorr&rsquo;s NPR identity is also too much for some members of the conservative media-criticism establishment, where <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/07/24/wapo-obit-skips-liberal-label-lefty-journalist-daniel-schorr" target="_blank">News Busters</a>&rsquo; Scott Whitlock blasts the Post for not using the word &ldquo;liberal&rdquo; in describing the newsman&rsquo;s on-air analysis. Grim Reader generally hates this sort of perpetual alarmism about bias &mdash; as a reporter Schorr seems to have been an equal-opportunity pain in the rear &mdash; but in this case Whitlock is right: As a commentator, Schorr was an outspoken liberal, and it doesn&rsquo;t diminish him, or his prior reporting, to acknowledge that. Why hide behind descriptions of his &ldquo;gravitas&rdquo;? <br />
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<img style="padding-right: 10px; max-width:630px;"width="300" hspace="6" height="450" align="left" src="/media/image/fb1.jpg" alt="Jack Tatum" />Was <strong>Jack Tatum</strong> a bad person? One of the most ferocious football players of the 1970s, Tatum &mdash; author of the autobiography <em>They Call Me Assassin</em> &mdash; gets major play this week thanks to one specific tackle: the 1978 hit that paralyzed New England&rsquo;s Daryl Stingley. Though no penalty flag flew, a lot of the copy deals with whether Tatum showed appropriate contrition. The conclusions vary: The obits note that Tatum said he tried to visit Stingley in the hospital, only to be turned away. A friend tells the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/07/28/jack_tatum_61_nfl_all_star_known_for_hard_hitting_play/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Obituaries">Associated Press</a> that the incident &ldquo;haunted&rdquo; Tatum. On the other hand, he&rsquo;s also quoted in the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-tatum-20100728,0,232304.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fobituaries+%28Los+Angeles+Times+-+Obituaries%29">Los Angeles Times</a> as declaring an apology unnecessary because &ldquo;that was football.&rdquo; And all that self-branding as &ldquo;Assassin&rdquo; (the word also appeared in two subsequent memoirs) doesn&rsquo;t suggest serious haunting, either, especially since the Los Angeles Times gets former coach John Madden to say that Tatum never answered to the nickname during his playing days.<br />
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In a sharp take on the death, the sports blog <a target="_blank" href="http://deadspin.com/5598492/last-nights-winner-an-nfl-legacy-of-bloodthirst">Deadspin</a> explains who should really apologize: all of us who watch football. &ldquo;Hits. We want hits. The more brutal, the better the highlight reel&hellip;.When a player is hurt, or god forbid, paralyzed, do we take a hard look at the game itself? Of course not. We find a way to blame the tackler.&rdquo;<br />
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Also in sports, there are obits this week for former New York Yankees manager <strong>Ralph Houk</strong>, the third Yankee figure to die in a month. The basic contours of narrative used in this month&rsquo;s obits for former owner George Steinbrenner are so well established &mdash; the squad decayed in the 1960s, only to be revived by the Boss &mdash; that Houk&rsquo;s tale is merely inserted into that story: Though he won World Series titles during his first two seasons as skipper, explains the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2010/07/21/2010-07-21_former_new_york_yankees_catcher_world_serieswinning_manager_ralph_houk_dies_at_a.html"><em>New York Daily News</em></a>, &ldquo;his Yankee legacy has become almost erased over time, especially since so much of it was spent during the CBS &lsquo;fall from glory&rsquo; years.&rdquo; He racked up the wins during subsequent stints atop the Tigers and Red Sox, but never saw another World Series.<br />
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Away from Nevada, <strong>Kenny Guinn&rsquo;</strong>s obits cast him as a moderate Republican who enjoyed two successful terms as governor. The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/us/politics/25guinn.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">Associated Press</a> version reads like even that was incidental &mdash; &ldquo;governor of Nevada during a prosperous era for a state now facing severe budget problems,&rdquo; is how Guinn gets ID&rsquo;d. In the home state press, though, it&rsquo;s quite different. A <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/nevada-s-gop-could-learn-something-from-kenny-guinn-99299594.html?ref=594"><em>Las Vegas Review-Journal</em></a> piece offers a nice version of the old political columnists&rsquo; trick of using a dead pol to lambaste living ones: &ldquo;Guinn, easily Nevada&rsquo;s most successful Republican governor in at least 40 years, wouldn&rsquo;t get the time of day from the state party if he had run this year,&rdquo; a column explains, casting the late governor as a pragmatist in a party now led by ideologues.<br />
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<strong>James Akins</strong>, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, is remembered for having &ldquo;controversially predicted that growing U.S. dependence on Middle East oil gravely threatened the national economy and [being] vindicated when nearly all of his predictions came true,&rdquo; according to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/26/AR2010072605298_2.html"><em>Washington Post</em></a>. The obit also recounts how Akins was fired for, among other things, telling Saudis not to trust the Secretary of State he supposedly worked for, Henry Kissinger. Detractors called the goateed, Arabic-speaking Akins the Saudi Ambassador to Washington, rather than vice-versa &mdash; though Grim Reader wishes the obit had explained how this jives with his alarms about foreign oil. The last line of the piece is also something you don&rsquo;t often read in an obituary: &ldquo;The current price of crude is nearly $80 per barrel.&rdquo;<br />
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Also overseas, Chileans mourn <strong>Luis Corvalan</strong>, a Communist leader who helped Socialist Salvador Allende become president, only to see his ally toppled in a U.S.-backed coup. Corvalan was jailed by the new regime, but eventually swapped for a Soviet dissident. In a detail that the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/luis-corvalan-communist-who-helped-allende-become-chiles-president-and-was-later-exchanged-for-the-soviet-dissident-bukovsky-2034138.html"><em>Independent</em></a> foolishly downplayed, he underwent plastic surgery so he could sneak back into his country &mdash; a secrecy that became unnecessary a year later, when the right-wing Pinochet regime fell. &hellip; In Germany, <strong>Theo Albrecht</strong> became a billionaire by founding the super-discount grocery chain Aldi, described by the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b0c5d32-9a38-11df-8346-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss"><em>Financial Times</em></a> as &ldquo;pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap&rdquo; shopping with &ldquo;no hint of attention to retail aesthetics.&rdquo; The obits also all mention his reclusivity. No kidding: Though the <em>Financial Times</em> notes that Albrecht was kidnapped in 1971, it offers no details of who did the deed. No pictures of the billionaire have been taken since the 1980s. Aldi exists in the U.S., but Americans may better know Albrecht as owner of Trader Joe&rsquo;s. <br />
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In arts, there are obits this week for<strong> Peter Fernandez</strong>, the former child actor who later gave voice to &mdash; and did a lot of the cultural translating for &mdash; the American broadcasts of the imported Japanese &ldquo;Speed Racer&rdquo; cartoon. <a target="_blank" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/25/local/la-me-peter-fernandez-20100726"><em>The Los Angeles Times</em></a> credits Fernandez with popularizing Japanese comics, a niche that continues to this day. &hellip; American cinematographer <strong>William Fraker</strong> is remembered by the United Kingdom&rsquo;s <em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/10/william-fraker-obituary">Guardian</a></em> for pushing &ldquo;the boundaries of cinematography in commercial cinema by using faster and wider lenses, restricting lighting sources and employing techniques such as flashing and deliberate overexposure.&rdquo;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-william-fraker-20100602,0,1864950.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fobituaries+%28Los+Angeles+Times+-+Obituaries%29"> U.S. papers</a> also include such film-school details, but focus on something a little more visceral: He was the guy who strapped a camera to a Ford Mustang to film the unforgettable chase scene in Steve McQueen&rsquo;s Bullitt.<br />
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<img style="padding-right: 10px; max-width:630px;"width="250" hspace="6" height="317" align="left" src="/media/image/slim-bryant-01.jpg" alt="Slim Bryant" />And <strong>Slim Bryant</strong>, who died at 101, is proclaimed to have been the last surviving country singer who recorded during the 1920s. Naturally, the thoughtful obit on a U.S. roots musician comes from the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/27/slim-bryant-obituary"><em>Guardian</em></a>, which traces Bryant&rsquo;s influences and the rise of professionalized country music; once his mountain style was deemed pass&eacute;, he retired to run a gift shop in suburban Pittsburgh &mdash; the only American place where major media saw fit to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10150/1061924-122.stm">write up</a> his death. <br />
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Finally, a piece of obit criticism even the brave souls here at Obit-Mag may never be able to top. After the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/us/26walking.html?_r=1"><em>New York Times</em></a> ran a story about the death of a man who had been known for regular walks around his Los Angeles neighborhood, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/editor-at-large/view/article/Boring-Article-Contest-39"><em>The Atlantic</em></a>&rsquo;s Michael Kinsley pounced, declaring the story &ldquo;<strong>the most boring article ever published in a newspaper</strong>.&rdquo; GR suspects Kinsley never had to do a weekend story about a walk-a-thon raising money to fight cancer, but the point stands: &ldquo;It was about a man who used to take long walks around the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, until he died last week. That&rsquo;s it. That&rsquo;s the story.&rdquo;<br />
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<em>Michael Schaffer&rsquo;s Grim Reader appears Friday in Obit. He is the author of One Nation Under Dog, about culture and the American pet industry.</em><br><br>
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