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...broadcast journalism has a secular saint, a Puritan forebear, a drafter of the Constitution, he is beyond challenge Edward R. Murrow, a man whose prestige endures more than a quarter of a century after he ceased to be a major force in reporting and analyzing the news. Murrow made his reputation covering war and challenging demagoguery. He burnished it by losing battles to commercialism and belatedly denouncing his betrayers. He died young: he was 57 when he succumbed to the lung cancer brought on by a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit, a vice he could not kick even while...
...news networks contend, with some justice, that just the opposite has happened. News and information fill many more hours of the day than when Murrow was active, and more outlets are competing for stories. Lightweight cameras and satellites have enabled television to provide immediate hookups around the world. Broadcast journalism's collective impact on the civil rights movement, Viet Nam and Watergate more than matched Murrow's exposure of the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Moreover, Murrow's work for CBS was not without flaw. His intonations and gestures were often stagy, his language orotund, his judgments pious. He squandered...
...were at the center of its target; instead of using the technical wizardry of minicams and satellite feeds to report a battle that seemed to have been orchestrated for the 7 o'clock news, they were forced to use an older tool, the telephone, reviving images of Edward R. Murrow during World War II's London blitz. They were right in the middle of a city that was being attacked by their own military and yet could not immediately confirm what was happening. Initially, they were handcuffed by the fact that they could neither see nor film what was occurring...
DIED. Charles Collingwood, 68, debonair CBS radio and television correspondent who over four decades covered World War II, the White House and Viet Nam; of cancer; in New York City. Collingwood joined CBS in 1941 as part of Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's London team. He was the network's first U.N. correspondent and the first U.S. television newsman to visit North Viet Nam. In 1963 he won a Peabody Award for his televised tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy...
...they do, it will be the result of hard, uphill work. Even at the height of its success, ABC never quite overcame its image as the upstart of TV's network fraternity. CBS, with its distinguished legacy of William Paley, Edward R. Murrow and Playhouse 90, has always embodied broadcasting's old- school elite. NBC, originator of the Today and Tonight shows and numerous other firsts, is a respected, if sometimes stodgy, TV pioneer. ABC, by contrast, is the brash outsider, by turns more innovative and more shrewdly commercial than either of its rivals...