Word: murrow
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When asked if McCurry was considering a faculty position at Harvard, Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of press, politics and pubic policy and director of the Shorenstein Center, said he had spoken with McCurry "several times...
...given more prominence. It was one of the century's major sources of entertainment and reigned for 30 years. Without radio, there would have been no TV. Radio first brought to prominence Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, Ozzie and Harriet, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Lucille Ball and Edward R. Murrow--not to mention the creation of the soap opera, newscast, quiz show, talk show, domestic comedy and live sportscast. Not bad for one little medium. GERALD NACHMAN San Francisco...
...steered by. Not only was he a superb editor, he was a writer of uncommon talent who taught us that, with rare exceptions, when television journalism is good, the pictures take second place to the words. Nothing illustrated his love of words more than his and Ed Murrow's I Can Hear It Now record albums. There were no pictures, but if you closed your eyes and listened, you could see the pictures--word pictures that came not from a camera but from Fred Friendly's typewriter...
...compelling word pictures Friendly drew captured his World War II time in the Pacific ("If you've ever been in the jungle at night, you know that when a howitzer screams, the jungle screams back.") Perhaps he learned to draw like that from listening to the pictures his sidekick Murrow broadcast from London. It's an art that, with limited exceptions, has disappeared with Friendly...
Rather dedicated his award to famed broadcast journalist and executive Fred W. Friendly, who died last week, Friendly produced for legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow and was president of CBS News during the network's glory days...