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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.
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
Egbert Murrow
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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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