15 Quotes by Daniel Schorr

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.

I'm delighted about it myself, because I'm no longer primarily a television person. I love seeing that the people who exercised that absolute control have lost it, thanks to technology.

I had to fight to keep reality on television, ... Most of the time I lost.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you’ve got it made.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn’t trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.