Edward R. Murrow Quotes

• The people you have seen have the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. They do not have the strength to influence legislation. Maybe you do.

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• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

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• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Freedom, War

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

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• The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

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• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

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• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

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  Tags in People, Conversation

• Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

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  Tags in World

• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

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• Good night, and good luck.

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• Fame is morally neutral.

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.

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• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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• Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.

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• 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.

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• A satellite has no conscience.

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  Tags in School

• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

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• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

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Edward R. Murrow (25)

Birth:	25th April, 1908
Death:	27th April, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Radio Personality

About

Edward R. Murrow was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, USA. He was an American journalist and radio personality. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of The Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1930.

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