Edward R. Murrow - Turning over in his grave - Words from the last objective journalist

Posted by Gordon on June 14, 2010 at 8:25pm

Edward R. Murrow is the most distinguished and renowned figure in the history of American broadcast journalism. He was a seminal force in the creation and development of electronic newsgathering as both a craft and a profession. Murrow's career began at CBS in 1935 and spanned the infancy of news and public affairs programming on radio through the ascendancy of television in the 1950s, as it eventually became the nation's most popular news medium. In 1961, Murrow left CBS to become director of the United States Information Agency for the new Kennedy administration. By that time, his peers were already referring to a "Murrow legend and tradition" of courage, integrity, social responsibility, and journalistic excellence, emblematic of the highest ideals of both broadcast news and the television industry in general.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWWHNtXOJZI&feature=player_embedded


Murrow:McCarthy March 9, 1954



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xxzNjhDEk&feature=player_embedded


Edward R. Murrow reports Buchenwald

Edward R. Murrow reports the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVn0hzcSs0&feature=player_embedded


Comment by Donny Buckman on June 15, 2010 at 10:45am
I love the line in the second clip where Mr. Murrow says "we must not confuse descent with disloyalty." Man that was great. Thanks Gordon.

Comment by Donny Buckman on June 15, 2010 at 10:28am
In the last clip Mr. Murrow says "men from the countries that made America." I often hear people descended from those men and countries told to go back where they came from. In only 60 years the people in this country have totally forgotten what it was made out of. Even worse, they don't know what they are making it into.