When reporters had integrity and reported the facts, not their opinions as facts. When journalists were the watch dogs of politicians, not their lap dogs. We need an Edward R. Murrow today more than ever. He was what a journalist was supposed to be, not what a political party wanted him to be.
I listen now to Mr Murrow in London when I was a small child. The background noise of the Blitz is still vivid in my memory. The huge crack of the 4;5" ack-ack guns going off. There were two batteries on Richmond Hill in the Park overlooking London below. His descriptions of life in the blitz are so realistic, and he managed to catch the mood and the gravitas of the moment. He was in fact living it with all of us Londoners. The great civilian Army , fighting the fires and , and heavy rescue squads going day and night.' I remember the Coventry Climax two wheeled Fire Pumps you could tow behind a Taxi, and then pump water like you have never seen. Thousands of gallons per minute under huge pressure He reported all this to the world. Brilliant.
"Around us all, now high like a distant thunderhead, now close upon us with the wet, choking intimacy of a London fog, there is an enveloping cloud of fear."
When I was a kid, I read the Time for Kids Almanac 2003. They had a section about television, and it mentioned Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now series. It didn’t give a picture of Mr. Murrow, so I imagined him as looking like Jorgen Von Strangle from The Fairly OddParents…
I remember most men in my childhood sounding like Edward R. Murrow--now, so as not to be "offensive' to idiots, perhaps--men seem to have to sound like Kermit the Frog.
My father, a journalist who began his career under Murrow, always sounded like this when he read aloud. I miss that affectation, him and the desire to sound in-control and cool instead of crazier than the next guy.
this needs more than 10,000 views, unbelievable how true these words are today
When reporters had integrity and reported the facts, not their opinions as facts. When journalists were the watch dogs of politicians, not their lap dogs. We need an Edward R. Murrow today more than ever. He was what a journalist was supposed to be, not what a political party wanted him to be.
Amen.
THIS GUY WAS A GREAT MAN WHO SPOKE HIS PEACE EVERY WEEK, TO BAD HE'S GONE.....NNNNNNNNNNNNEVER TO BE DUPLICATED.
I listen now to Mr Murrow in London when I was a small child. The background noise of the Blitz is still vivid in my memory. The huge crack of the 4;5" ack-ack guns going off. There were two batteries on Richmond Hill in the Park overlooking London below. His descriptions of life in the blitz are so realistic, and he managed to catch the mood and the gravitas of the moment. He was in fact living it with all of us Londoners. The great civilian Army , fighting the fires and , and heavy rescue squads going day and night.' I remember the Coventry Climax two wheeled Fire Pumps you could tow behind a Taxi, and then pump water like you have never seen. Thousands of gallons per minute under huge pressure He reported all this to the world. Brilliant.
These words resonant just as strongly today
This was a great series, I worked on the preservation of the entire series for Tufts University.
"Around us all, now high like a distant thunderhead, now close upon us with the wet, choking intimacy of a London fog, there is an enveloping cloud of fear."
When I was a kid, I read the Time for Kids Almanac 2003. They had a section about television, and it mentioned Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now series. It didn’t give a picture of Mr. Murrow, so I imagined him as looking like Jorgen Von Strangle from The Fairly OddParents…
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I remember most men in my childhood sounding like Edward R. Murrow--now, so as not to be "offensive' to idiots, perhaps--men seem to have to sound like Kermit the Frog.
My father, a journalist who began his career under Murrow, always sounded like this when he read aloud. I miss that affectation, him and the desire to sound in-control and cool instead of crazier than the next guy.
Is it a sound or more of a tone, or just good editing and practice. I think it is journalism at its most pared down.
I want to talk like Edward R. Murrow!
This I believe
I am so sorry to do this but...
"or even a heavy package of despair"
Junko: did someone say despair?!
once again if you get this, I am so sorry 😂
Gods bless Ida Lou Anderson.
I hate school.
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