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
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
To be credible we must be truthful.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
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.