{"id":101006,"date":"2016-05-19T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101006"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:38:32","slug":"60-minutes-morley-safer-passes-following-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101006","title":{"rendered":"60 Minutes, Morley Safer passes, following retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SaferMorley1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101017\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SaferMorley1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"SaferMorley1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SaferMorley1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SaferMorley1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SaferMorley1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CBS says veteran journalist and &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Morley Safer has died at age 84.<\/p>\n<p>Safer was equally at home reporting on social injustices, abstract art and war-time atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>He already was a CBS News mainstay in 1970 when he joined &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; which had debuted just two years earlier. He claimed the co-host chair alongside Mike Wallace and remained with the broadcast for the rest of his life, announcing his retirement earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Safer once claimed &#8220;there is no such thing as the common man,&#8221; explaining, &#8220;If there were, there would be no need for journalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CBS says veteran journalist and &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Morley Safer has died at age 84. Safer was equally at home reporting on social injustices, abstract art and war-time atrocities. He already was a CBS News mainstay in 1970 when he joined &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; which had debuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101018,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101006\/revisions\/101018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}