"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."
Ed Murrow is arguably America's first broadcast journalist. His career took off during WWII, when he reported from Europe about the war. Murrow was born in 1908 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He majored in speech at Washington State University and moved to New York after graduation. He started working at CBS five years later, and the rest is history. Murrow changed the way radio and television presented news.
Murrow’s love of common 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. Because Murrow was such a renowned reporter, his words were taken seriously. He stirred up a lot of trouble with his reports on Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the tension eventually led to his partnership with CBS to end.
As I read about Murrow and the stories he reported, I wonder where American broadcast journalism would be today without him. I believe it would be dramatically different. Murrow set a standard that new journalists strived to surpass; and I think without that standard news today would fall short of what we are lucky enough to be exposed to.
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http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=murrowedwar
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