How could that be, you ask? Well …
Legendary CBS journalist and PBS commentator Daniel Schorr died today at the age of 93 … and I’ve spent a slice of the afternoon reading obituaries about the man who was perhaps best known for reporting on Richard Nixon’s “enemies list” … and making it.
One nugget near the end of the obit in The New York Times caught my eye:
Despite decades of experience in the latest broadcast technology, Mr. Schorr never learned to use computers or word processors, sticking with electric typewriters into his 90s.
That had to be imprecise phrasing on the part of the obituary writer, I thought; he must have meant that Schorr “never learned to use computers or word processors TO WRITE.” There’s no way he didn’t use a computer to keep up with the world.
Sure enough, the Washington Post both clarifies and shows that the Times obit hadn’t been updated recently:
Only in December 2009 did he switch from using a typewriter to a computer, he said, according his NPR Twitter feed.
Daniel Schorr was no Luddite; he was Twitter user. And that tweet read:
Big day in my career. First time I composed my commentary for All Things Considered on my computer. Good-bye, typewriter.
Good-bye to you, sir.
