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Volume II has no such liability. Few Americans were on the scene as the Third Reich took form. Shirer was in Berlin, and accompanied Hitler and his entourage to Paris when the Petain government surrendered in 1940. At the start he was a newspaperman; Edward R. Murrow hired him away in 1937 to be the other half of CBS Radio's staff in Europe. Shirer's journalistic credentials eventually brought him invitations to the bizarre Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate...
...beginning of actual fighting did catch the network's attention, but it did not end the correspondents' problems with bosses who were entertainment biggies, not newsmen. No one had ever covered a war by radio, but it was clear to Shirer and Murrow that the way to do it was to record the sounds of bombs and guns-and interviews with combatants when these could be arranged-and then to weave these bits into a nightly broadcast. The Germans, proud of their blitzkrieg success in the early months of the war, offered mobile recording facilities. CBS refused, Shirer...
...fact, the 44-year-old old Koppel started roughly 36 years ago. "I knew I wanted to be a broadcast journalist when I was eight or nine," he says. "In my most formative years. I listened to the likes of Edward R. Murrow." The British-born Koppel came to the U.S. in 1953, spent his undergraduate years at Syracuse University and received a Masters in journalism from Stanford. In 1963, he joined ABC and reported from Vietnam--he learned Vietnamese before he left--and then headed the network's Hong Kong bureau. In 1977, he became the anchor...
...President Reagan relaxing at his California ranch last September while a voice-over described the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. He also singled out NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd for a needling interview of Senator Gary Hart in March. "Is it political reporting worthy of Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite," Fowler wondered, "to ask a presidential contender, during the first serious public scrutiny of his candidacy, to do a comedy impression of Ted Kennedy during a live, election-night interview?'' No one had an answer. All three networks declined to comment on the sayings...
Koppel was born in Britain, the only child of German Jews who fled Hitler's regime. His family moved to New York City when he was 13, and he grew up revering Edward R. Murrow and Alistair Cooke. After completing a B.A. at Syracuse, he received an M. A. in journalism at Stanford, where he met his wife...