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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Edward R. Murrow

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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
Journalist
Greensboro
North Carolina
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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.
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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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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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The obscure we always see sooner or later the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
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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.
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This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.
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One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
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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.
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