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Perhaps the Third World's most accurate complaint is that the West dominates the world flow of communications, principally through the hegemony of the so-called Big Four (A.P., U.P.I., Reuters and Agence France Press). A study this year of 14 Asian newspapers made for the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University showed the Big Four accounted for 76% of Third World news in those papers. Western dominance, however, is more a matter of economics than conscious conspiracy. International cable rates discriminate against small national news agencies and other low-volume users...
...memory where old, half-remembered news items occupy otherwise useless brain cells. For some inexplicable reason, save perhaps the innate grayness of the era, films from the '50s seem particularly susceptible to forgetability. In fact, there are only a few exceptions to this bizarre rule, among them Edward Murrow's better interviews and the lesser-known, but still timely film Come Back, Africa. Directed by Lionel Rogosin in 1959, Come Back, Africa is a documentary-drama about apartheid. Filmed secretly in South Africa, much of it in areas banned to whites, and then smuggled out of the country...
Since his death in 1965, Edward R. Murrow has been canonized as one of network television's few saints. According to legend, Murrow was the man who brought seriousness and purpose to TV journalism: without him, CBS News might still be a tabloid-headline service. Certainly much of Murrow's reputation is deserved, but his career was far more varied than the mythmakers allow. Like so many TV newsmen before and after him, Murrow was not immune to the economic attractions of show business. Maybe he never fronted for a game show (as Mike Wallace did) or appeared...
This summer at various times, many public television stations are airing 26 episodes of the series, which has not been seen since it was discontinued in 1959. Intended as a tribute to a TV great, this revival may actually tarnish the Murrow legend. The years have not been kind to Person to Person. As one watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every...
...Murrow's silliness on Person to Person is partially camouflaged by his formidable telegenic image: his omnipresent cigarette and theatrical voice lend dignity to everything he says. The words themselves, unfortunately, are banalities. In interviews with John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes de Mille, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, he rarely extracts a witticism and never an insight. "Have you opened all your wedding gifts?" he asks the newlywed Kennedys in 1953. He then goes on to stock questions that permit the young Senator to rattle off his policy positions by rote. Murrow...