CBS' Bob Schieffer is ready for retirement

[marylander1940]

Schieffer will host CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday for the last time after 24 years. He's retiring from a journalism career that began at 20 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station and landed him at CBS News in Washington when he walked in on someone else's interview.

 

He's one of the last of a generation of reporters working at such a high level; he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a story that gave him one of the biggest scoops of his career.

 

"I suppose every generation thinks that the kids younger than them aren't as good as they were and screwed it up in some way," he said. "I try not to sound like an old goat, but the fact is there will always be a need for reporters, whether they are doing it on television or a website or for a newspaper that is not on paper anymore."

 

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[Samfoslom]

Let's hope that, on the flip side, there will always be an engaged citizen, interested in thinking critically, and wanting to be informed.

[Kenny]

Glad he's ready. I've been ready for his retirement for YEARS.

[happyguy2]

Glad he's ready. I've been ready for his retirement for YEARS.

I really appreciated his fair and gentlemanly approach. I don't ever remember him losing his cool, even when people weren't answering his questions. I wish him the very best.

[Kenny]

I really appreciated his fair and gentlemanly approach. I don't ever remember him losing his cool, even when people weren't answering his questions. I wish him the very best.

Yes, but those are just theatrical skills, not journalistic ones. Schieffer was always deferential to power, regardless of which side of the aisle, and that's a disaster for a journalist. In 2013 he gave a notorious speech in which he praised the fine job the press did in the run-up to the Iraq war! Ugh.

[anotherjohnindupont]

Yes, but those are just theatrical skills, not journalistic ones. Schieffer was always deferential to power, regardless of which side of the aisle, and that's a disaster for a journalist. In 2013 he gave a notorious speech in which he praised the fine job the press did in the run-up to the Iraq war! Ugh.

 

He's an idiot!

[happyguy2]

He's an idiot!

after reading all you had to say, I fear I might be a bit of an idiot myself - or at least naïve!