Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow KBEwas an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth25 April 1908
CityGuilford County, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Edward R. Murrow quotes about
The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..
Fame is morally neutral.
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
All babies look like Winston Churchill.
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.