More from Edward R. Murrow

  1. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to …
  2. Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
  3. A satellite has no conscience.
  4. We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
  5. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicato…
  6. The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
  7. If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline…
  8. As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping …

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