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“I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.”

Quote by Edward R. Murrow

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Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow, a renowned American journalist, was born on April 25, 1908, and passed away on April 27, 1965. He is best known for his exceptional contributions to broadcasting, particularly his reporting on Nazi Germany during World War II. more

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“I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.”

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“I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse.”

“If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.”

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“It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.”

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Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.”

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“The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.”

Thinking Knows America Speak Court Sanctity

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“We are to a large extent an imitative society.”

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.”

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“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.”

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“Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.”