Numerous civil liberties groups also have honored him for his defense of the First Amendment. Schorr was threatened with jail time for Contempt of Congress because the report was supposed to have been suppressed. Serving in Washington as the news network s senior correspondent until 1985, Schorr left in a dispute over an effort to limit his editorial independence. He began his career as the Western European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor after serving with the United States Army in World War II . Schorr s experience will be an invaluable resource for journalism students at SSU, Simmons said.
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