Missing Murrow

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Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent, who gained prominence during World War II with live radio broadcasts from Europe for CBS News A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." — #ERM

ERM was born this date: April 25, 1908, Guilford County, North Carolina, and died: April 27, 1965, Pawling, New York

He has had awards and schools named after him so his legacy remains, but America needs a modern-day Murrow.

Today, he would be known simply as @ERM Murrow’s real love of America led him to seek out stories of ordinary people. He presented their stories in such a way that they often became powerful commentaries on political or social issues. See It Now consistently broke new ground in the burgeoning field of television journalism. In 1953,

Here is the first 10 minutes of Studio 41 before Studio 54 became infamous See it now S01E06 https://youtu.be/pJkJ6j0Z2Ro

#ERM learned that US Senator Joseph McCarthy was preparing an attack on Murrow. As it happened, Murrow himself had been collecting material about McCarthy and his Senate Investigating Committee for several years, and he began assembling the program. Broadcast on March 9, 1954, the program, composed almost entirely of McCarthy’s own words and pictures, was a damning portrait of a fanatic. McCarthy demanded a chance to respond, but his rebuttal, in which he referred to Murrow as “the leader of the jackal pack,” only sealed his fate. The combination of the program’s timing and its persuasive power broke the Senator’s hold over the nation. The entire fiasco, however, caused a rift with CBS, and they decided to discontinue See It Now.

This Reporter https://to.pbs.org/2XKLEFS