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Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.

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Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

Appears, Believe, Deluded, Heads, Politics, Taste

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

Flame, Flames, Light, Symphony

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Beings, Communication, Language, Newest, Problem, Technology

Good night, and good luck.

Best Of Luck, Good, Good Luck, Good Night, Luck, Night

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

Like, Outpouring, Pills, Produce, Television

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Devised, Discovery, Fire, Greatest, Men

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Art, Communication, Conversation, Funny, Lost

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Mistake, Obligation, Problem Solving, Slogans, Solutions

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.

Ability, Careers, Energy, Loved, Men

It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.

Firsts, Free, Newspapers, Real, Reason, Want

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Butterfly, Differences, Enough, Know, Novices, Trained

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. . . We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Age, Defend, Home, Men, Unreason

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

America, Confuse, Opposition, Peace, Teaching, War

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Beget, Government, Political, Sheep, Wolves

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

Littles, Longer, Obscure, Obvious, Sooner

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Confused, Humorous, Profound, Situation, Understand

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.

Absence, Constant, Imbalance, Nation, Study

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Battle, Churchill, English Language, Language, Mobilized, Sir

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

Goes On, Ideas, Information, Limp, Revenge

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.

Communication, Distribution, Literature, True, Truth, Wondrous

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