Morley Safer
Morley Safer has been a "60
Minutes" correspondent since December 1970. The
2009-10 season marks his 39th on the broadcast.
Safer's body of work spanning six decades was just
acknowledged with the Fred Friendly First Amendment
Award from Quinnipiac College and special recognition
from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He has also
received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards First
Prize for Domestic Television for his insightful report
about a controversial school, "School for the
Homeless" (February 2001). Safer's newsmaking
reports and interviews have been honored with numerous
other awards, including 12 Emmys, three Overseas Press
Club Awards, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, two George
Polk Memorial Awards and the Paul White Award from
the Radio/Television News Directors Association (RTNDA).
In 1995, he was named a Chévalier dans l?Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
MORLEY Safer, 77, has outlasted Ed Bradley, Dan Rather
and Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes," and he
has no plans to retire, he said in his hometown of
Toronto as he received a tribute from the Canadian
Journalism Foundation. Safer also said his recent
interview with Dolly Parton was one of his all-time
favorites. "If I could interview Dolly every
week, I would," he said. According to north-of-the-border
columnist Shinan Govani, Safer also railed against
bloggers and new media, "I would trust a citizen
journalist as much as I would trust a citizen surgeon."
James Cameron's Avatar
Morley Safer gets the first look at how "Titanic"
Director James Cameron created his $400 million 3D
fantasy "Avatar."
3D or not 3D, that is the question. Hollywood has
been making false starts and false promises about
3D since the 1950s. Now comes director Jim Cameron,
who is unveiling a movie in mid-December that could
settle the argument about the staying power of 3D
once and for all.
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