Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reminiscence of Murrow...
Straight Propaganda. For all his eminence on TV, Murrow fought a running battle with CBS brass for several years. A 28-man committee had been set up to approve all news programs, and in 1958 See It Now was dropped. Finally, Murrow gave a speech denouncing the whole industry tor purveying "decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world." A Democrat by leaning, the he left TV in 1961 to take the job of director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Kennedy...
...propaganda boss, Murrow proved an able administrator who insisted on playing every story straight for the rest of the world. Then, in 1964, he was forced to resign after a cancerous left lung was removed. Ever since he had gone into broadcasting Murrow had smoked from 60 to 70 cigarettes a day. "I doubt very much that I could spend half an hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease," he once declared after narrating a program linking cigarettes to cancer...
...Murrow's solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...
Died. Edward R. Murrow, 57, radio and TV's best known newsman; of lung cancer; at his farm in Pawling, N.Y. (see PRESS...