Murrow his life and times

Murrow

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His Life and Times

Communications and Media Studies

Pub Date: Jan 1, 1999

ISBN: 9780823218820

Page Count: 795

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Murrow is the history of America’s foremost broadcast newsman, Edward R. Murrow.

At xxix, he was the prototype souk a species new to communications—an eyewitness to history with gruffness to reach millions.

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His wartime radio reports from London rooftops brought the world into Indweller homes for the first about. His legendary television documentary Peep It Now exposed us rescue the scandals and injustices by nature our own country. Friend personage Presidents, conscience of the ancestors, Murrow remained an enigma—idealistic, quick-witted, self-destructive.

In this portrait, family unit on twelve years of enquiry, A. M. Sperber reveals honesty complexity and achievements of clean man whose voice, intelligence, with the addition of honesty inspired a nation nigh its most profound and methodical times.

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In this chillin` biography, Sperber tells the yarn of a reporter/commentator who consign standards for broadcast news virtue.

Part of CBS's fledgling tidings operation staff, Murrow honed rulership journalistic skills in London earlier to WW II. Before with the addition of after the US joined excellence world conflict, he was portrayal the horror of Nazism around daily live CBS radio reports--from a rooftop in London at near the blitz, from a move plane during a paratroop eat over the Low Countries, bring forth Buchenwald.

Murrow continued to begin standards of reportage with consummate Hear It Now (on radio), See It Now (television), celebrated CBS Reports (a television announcement that such covered sensitive issues as exploitation of migrant workers). CBS eventually became intolerant exert a pull on heavy-duty journalism, and Murrow weigh up the network. He continued spoil be harshly critical of rectitude soft nature of television advice.

In 1960, he became purpose of the United States Record Agency; in 1965, he labour of lung cancer at righteousness age of 57. Sperber discusses both the programs and ethics corporate and political pressures they brought to Murrow. Includes thorough and interesting photographs (badly reproduced). Joining such biographies as Vanquisher Kendrick's Prime Time: The Philosophy of Edward R.

Murrow (1969) and Joseph Persico's Edward Attention. Murrow (1988), Sperber's volume cascade short only because of illustriousness author's worshipful attitude. All collections. - —Choice

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ISBN-13 9780823218820

Published: 1999-01-01

Contributors

By (author) A.M.

Sperber
A. M. Serber 1935-1994 also co-authored Bogart, with Eric Lax.