Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are talking about the Danube Valley and disposing of the rights and happiness of the people there," Murrow wants to put his Danube Valley man on the air and "tell the world what the greybeards are talking about...
...people in enemy-occupied territory really pay attention to United Nations' radio propaganda? Evidence has been necessarily scanty, but last week CBS's painstaking, perceptive Ed Murrow, home for a rest from London, provided some proof. As an experiment, he said, BBC recently broadcast the name and address of a Bordeaux butcher who was selling meat to Germans while his people starved. Next day several hundred furious French housewives demolished the butcher's shop...
...Murrow saw in this an ungrasped opportunity. Said he: "We have got an audience. But we haven't given them much inspiration or hope. Our uplift propaganda is bad. Too much optimism is torturing the nerves of people unnecessarily, leading them to expect delivery at too early a date...
After six years' distinguished covering of the European radio beat, Murrow was well qualified to speak. His biweekly newscasts have helped make the war clearer to hosts of Americans. Now he is concerned with radio's role in the peace. He thinks that Versailles might have been different if its proceedings had been widely and quickly broadcast. He hopes to have a trained staff and enough freedom from censorship to provide swift, sure coverage of the next peace conference...
...Collingwood was so flattered by his award last week that he was unable to utter an appropriate "thanks." Probably the world's youngest (26) warcaster today, he had the distinction of having won radio's top prize at the beginning of his career. CBS's Ed Murrow hired the Peabody-winner in London two years...