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EDWARD R. MURROW AND THE BIRTH OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM By: Bob Edwards
In this brisk and incisive account, Bob Edwards shows us how Edward R. Murrow helped establish broadcast journalism?and, in the process, reminds us how far most broadcast news has fallen from the reportorial standards set by Murrow and the people he hired
Turning Points in History
Wiley
April 2004
Featuring: Edward Murrow
192 pages ISBN: 0471477532 Hardcover
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"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by todayβs news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more people in and out of the news business will get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrowβs principles can be reversed."βBob Edwards
 Media BuzzImus in the Morning - October 14, 2005
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