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Edward R. Murrow returns...
Chancellor, when he becomes a commentator, aspires to be outspoken-to present a brief as a lawyer would and end "by making a good point." He recalls the bolder broadcasts of Elmer Davis and Edward R. Murrow, and wonders why radio seems to permit freer comment than television. But were the old ones really bolder? Salant doubts it. Murrow, he says, insisted on a fairness and objectivity clause in his contract; he departed only once from this self-imposed standard, when he persuaded CBS's top brass to let him make his famous televised attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where he was the network's national correspondent and began his commentary on Walter Cronkite's nightly newscast...
...future of Walters and Reasoner, and what is perceived as an ambiguous commitment to quality coverage. Even Arledge concedes the network's failing: "ABC's reputation in the past has been to provide coverage, but as little as they could get away with." Fred Friendly, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, is harsher: "They do a lousy, chintzy...
Several levels of dishonesty become apparent in Network. The film hits its deceitful best in its with which to identify. We have an Edward R. Murrow character in whore-number-one, Max Shumacher (William Holden), head of the news division. But unlike Murrow (who was virtuous both on and off the screen) Shumacher leaves his wife of 25 years and shacks up with whore-number-two, vice president for programming Diana Christenson (Faye Dunaway...