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...provide perspective on the problem-whether its cause lies in the economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant workers, Harvest of Shame. But both of NET's programs proved, as one of the films concluded, that "the migrant condition is still the shame of the nation...
...Edward R. Murrow's See It Now television program, he attacked the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking Congressional committees." In a speech at Mt. Holyoke College in 1954, he proposed a seven-point plan for curbing the powers of one-man subcommittees such as McCarthy...
...miscellaneous category, ABC has dusted off Person to Person, titled it Good Company, and put Trial Lawyer F. Lee Bailey in Edward R. Murrow's easy chair. First witness, Actor Tony Curtis, acquitted himself better than his inquisitor, but the jury should await forthcoming interviews with Everett Dirksen and Hugh Hefner before giving...
Ambivalence. With more regret than bitterness, he traces his frustrating uphill campaign to further TV journalism. His contributions, most notably as co-producer with Edward R. Murrow of See It Now and CBS Reports, were considerable-although Friendly spoils his case with perhaps too much self-congratulation. Nevertheless, he does lay out forthrightly the broadcasting industry's ambivalence on commercial questions. The problem was brusquely summed up by former CBS President James Aubrey, who told Friendly: "In this adversary system, you and I are always going to be at each other's throats. They say to me: Take...
Died. Brigadier General Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, Air Force flyer and eldest brother of the late Edward R. Murrow, a troop-carrier specialist in World War II and Korea, who retired in 1953 to a variety of highway-and railroad-consultant jobs; by his own hand (shotgun); in Baltimore...