Tune In To 'Up All Night' For The Story Of Daniel Schorr And The Birth Of CNN

Ted Turner and Daniel Schorr: Doesn't sound like a likely match, does it?

The Mouth of the South, as Ted Turner was called, and Murrow Boy Dan Schorr — one was on President Nixon's Enemies List when he covered the Watergate investigations for CBS. The other made some of his own worst enemies with, well, intemperate remarks.
Yet the first major editorial hire CNN founder Ted Turner made before the network signed on, just about 40 years ago on June 1, 1980 ... was Daniel Schorr. Who of course went on to feature on Weekend Edition and other NPR programs when he was this network's Senior News Analyst.