Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aware of a certain school of journalistic thought that contrasts you with Edward R. Murrow and concludes that Murrow was somehow a more cerebral communicator...
...What makes Murrow such a giant...
...Well, the same reason that I'm sort of giant at this time, and I say that only so it doesn't sound like I'm putting down Murrow. I have the advantage of longevity; that's one reason why, it may be the only reason, why I'm talking with you now. And not for any particular accomplishment, but just for this long standard of doing a lot of things. Murrow had the advantage of being a pioneer. Now this should not take away from Murrow; indeed it should add to Murrow's stature because it was Murrow...
...Murrow mistreated by the network in the last years of his life? Robert Metz, in Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, wrote at some length...
...news team free rein and approved a plan to expand the evening news. But as television audiences-and the cost of advertising-grew, the inevitable drive to improve profits led Paley to increase the number of popular entertainment shows. The distinguished weekly documentary See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial and not profitable enough. In 1972, says Halberstam, Paley intervened in newsroom decision making in a more chilling way. He tried to cancel the second segment of an Evening...