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

Portion of Edward R. Murrow's address to the Radio and Television News Directors Association ( RTNDA) Convention in Chicago on October 15, 1958, as reenacted by David Strathairn. This is from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJVK8_nWd0 Full text of Murrow's address:
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/edward-r.-murrow1106.php
(Also Listen to the entire speech via streaming audio, courtesy of KYW-AM, Philadelphia)

A conversation with actor David Strathairn about his portrayal of legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's film "Good Night, And Good Luck". http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/686

Remember Ed Murrow (1908-1965) http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/1965-honoring-edward-murrow-9800269 (6:18 minutes)

Network - "I'm as mad as hell" speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q

Oh, God - final scene (movie, `977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCxz-7lKuE

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CBS: Harvest of Shame Revisited - November 24, 2010
This week marks its 50th anniversary http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2865302n

CBS: Harvest of Shame with Edward R. Murrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTVF_dya7E (1960, 52 minutes; It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961.)

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The Press: The Harvester
TIME - March 31. 1961
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872195,00.html
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS316/mbase/docs/harvest.html

In a long and lucrative career on television, CBS's Edward R. Murrow, 52, developed a particular skill for the shame-of-America documentary that trains the camera eye on the dark corners of U.S. life. But last January Murrow decided to go to Washington, accepting a presidential appointment as director of the U.S. Information Agency. Last week, in a humbling effort to kill a TV documentary that he himself had narrated, Ed Murrow made clear demonstration of the truism that one's view can be shaped by one's job. . . . Dismayed at the damage that a European showing of the film could do to the image of America that he was now pledged to promote abroad, USIA Director Murrow called the BBC in a vain effort to suppress the show. . . .

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[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”.