More from Edward R. Murrow

  1. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Ou…
  2. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined …
  3. Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
  4. ...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...
  5. If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upo…
  6. A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
  7. The sponsor of an hour's television program is not buying merely the six minutes devoted to commercial message. He is determining, within b…
  8. A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fift…

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