Daniel Schorr, print and broadcast journalist for 70 years, died today. He was 93 years old. Schorr was CNN's first employee and won three Emmys for his coverage of Watergate for CBS. He had been an NPR commentator since 1985.

A news legend bid his typewriter farewell; people planned their post-New-York-Times futures; and the new wave were overwhelmed by work. The Twitterati were at a fracture point.

We just want to wish NPR commentator and former Murrow man, Daniel Schorr, a belated happy birthday. May your stentorian delivery of the week's news with just the tiniest sheen of analysis that always seems to result in "it will be interesting to see" continue for another billion years.

Rarely, Gawker gets correspondence from readers, and even more rarely, some of this correspondence is not all positive. Even more rarely still, and more often randomly, we attempt to answer questions or concerns raised in such letters. For example, here's a criticism about a post regarding "wise old man with all his buttons" Daniel Schorr, the famed NPR newsman and broadcaster. Writes the reader:

It's just you and a little machine and you can make history. I find that scary. Nobody should get into print or on the air without some kind of editor. I have an institutional belief that nobody can be above having a good editor.