and they always say the first rule in journalism don't let them scare you, none of them, including the bosses at cbs, ever scared daniel schorr. >> and that's a key point. >> he was a reporter's reporter. he did his own work. and he loved doing it. >> that's a key point. he took on his own network as well as various administrations. he seemed to march to his own drummer. and you know, it's funny, he really wanted to work for the "new york times" but as the "times" acknowledged in its oeb-it at the time the editor decided there were already too many jews in the "new york times." so instead he signed with cnn in 1980 and he made ted turner sign an agreement that said "no demand would be made upon him that would compromise his professional ethics." he didn't trust the corporate types, did he? >> no. and when dan schorr wrote out something like that, he really meant it. we have a lot of showboats around who might make those kind of boasts. but that was the way dan lived his life. i can still remember he was in this washington bureau when i came to work here this 1969, and i remember he came in the first time i met him, he was on a