Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South, "while popular will is not going to bring integration," it can be imposed by Southern leaders. He credited a hard-working, moderate group with effecting the peaceful integration in Louisville. The majority of the people there were against integration but were convinced to accept it, Pearce said. The journalist said that there is no large scale integration because the Negroes are "economically districted" into separate neighborhoods...
Many have come and many have fallen in TV's growth to immature maturity, but CBS's Ed Murrow, 49, marches on as TV's top journalist. Six years after his See It Now pioneered the technique for capturing the sights and sounds, persons and events that shape the news, it is unchallenged by any newer or better technique for exploiting TV's potential or overcoming its shortcomings. The combination of brains, integrity, attractiveness and showmanship that makes him such an effective journalist also establishes Murrow, in his role of star on the trivial but popular...
...answer to the question of Murrow's supremacy is that, in TV, Journalist Murrow deliberately bypasses the challenge of the spot news; he lets others try to work-if ever they can-a way in which TV can cover the day's events as effectively as radio, which not only beats TV on most news but provides more of it. The rest of the answers are more personal: one is what TV hucksters call sex appeal. Murrow is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority...
Broadcaster Murrow does not practice the objectivity that Policymaker Murrow preached. He could be accused of using the word "objectivity" sloppily. For, like any other journalist worth his salt, Murrow concedes that, for all the lip service paid to it, there is no such thing as true objectivity in handling the news. The job, as he sees it, is "to know one's own prejudices and try to do the best you can to be fair." He admits to open violations of the CBS policy, notably in some sharply partisan See It Now shows on civil-liberties issues...
...head during the welcoming ceremonies, and hurried back into the interior, where he was murdered. Stanley dismissed him as a "nearsighted, faithless, ungrateful little man"; even fairer judges must note that the Pasha was slow-witted enough to miss a pretty neat line of dialogue. As the great explorer-journalist stepped out of his tent amid rifle salutes, the Pasha unforgivably failed to say: "Mr. Stanley, I presume...