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...aware of a certain school of journalistic thought that contrasts you with Edward R. Murrow and concludes that Murrow was somehow a more cerebral communicator...
...news team free rein and approved a plan to expand the evening news. But as television audiences-and the cost of advertising-grew, the inevitable drive to improve profits led Paley to increase the number of popular entertainment shows. The distinguished weekly documentary See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial and not profitable enough. In 1972, says Halberstam, Paley intervened in newsroom decision making in a more chilling way. He tried to cancel the second segment of an Evening...
Moreover, the smooth Fleet Street professional is not without his own inadequacies. His preferences are understandable. The flamboyant correspondents make livelier copy than Knightley's accounts of Edward R. Murrow, A.J. Liebling, Alan Moorehead and Ernie Pyle-men who muffled the "boom-boom" in favor of the human voice. But as every journalist learns, readability has its casualties...
...role in combatting the demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s was far less noble than it has been portrayed. The network followed the political blacklist in its hiring. Paley was never behind Edward R. Murrow's famous documentary series See It Now, and Murrow and Co-Producer Fred Friendly spent their own money to advertise it. Paley eventually killed the show, saying: "I don't want this constant stomachache every time you do a controversial subject...
Special Meeting. In August 1962 the assassination project came under discussion at the highest levels of the Government. McCone called a special meeting of officials-among them Rusk, McNamara and Murrow-to discuss the growing Soviet activities in Cuba. McCone and another man present remember that McNamara raised the question of disposing of Castro. Murrow at once objected to any discussion on that point. McCone echoed the protest. Nevertheless, a memorandum circulated two days later by Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert attached to McNamara's office, included a mention of a plan for "eliminating...