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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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
Edward Roscoe Murrow
Egbert Roscoe Murrow
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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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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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I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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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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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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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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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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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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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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To be credible we must be truthful.
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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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If none of us ever read a book that was dangerous, had a friend who was different, or joined an organization that advocated change, we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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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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