Michael Tomasky: Daniel Schorr

One can't say it's a shock when a 93-year-old-man dies, but the death of veteran American newsman Daniel Schorr this morning at that rich age is a real loss for American journalism.

Schorr comes from a time and culture, CBS News in the 1950s, when putting news on television was considered such a civic trust and responsibility that the news division didn't even have to make a profit. He worked for Edward R. Murrow, and he reopened CBS' Moscow bureau after it had been shuttered by Stalin in...