Edward R Murrow: TV is being used to deceive us - 1958

[fromthesidelines]

The actual ending of his speech was this:

"Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, 'When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.' The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival."

[fromthesidelines]

This is the speech where Murrow declared about 'Network Television: 1958', "And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live".

[rowan1325]

Alot of What he said does make sense and makes you think

[RPMcMurf]

Excellent (Video). Just this one correction: In the film, Edward R Murrow is portrayed by “David Strathairn”.