EDWARD R. MURROW --MY HERO

The video portion used 3 minutes 2 seconds of a one-hour BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL documentary on Edward R Murrow. In addition, for the music portion, I took two clips (both roughly 25 seconds) of the 4 minute 50 second Fleetwood Mac song called "Brown Eyes".

Regarding Television, Edward R Murrow said:

In 1958, Edward R. Murrow stated, "Our history will be what we make it. 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."

Next year, Mr. Murrow's speech will "celebrate" its 50th anniversay...

The citizens in our free countries (I'm Canadian) are in such desperate-desperate need for Edward R Murrows. Not just on television, or in national printed media --but even at the smallest of local levels.

Yes, Washington and Ottawa affairs are important. But the day-to-dayness that most affects people's lives play themselves out at the local, municipal level.

I reached the sad and unavoidable conclusion that some of our "city halls" are dominated and run by a Corporate Repressive Evil Empire Power Structure.

I despair that I'm just not smart enough, tenacious enough, courageous enough to right the problem. I realize it isn't me whose most affected since I'm part of the comfortable class.

I despair though at the statistics of "The Others"

"Harvest of Shame" aired just after Thanksgiving 1960. The Dec. 5, 1960.

It was a documentary on the grinding poverty of migrant workers in Florida.

Edward R Murrow made these closing remarks:

"The migrants have no lobby. Only an enlightened, aroused and perhaps angered public opinion can do anything about the migrants. The people you have seen have the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. They do not have the strength to influence legislation. Maybe we do. Good night, and good luck."

It isn't just migrants who have no lobby. Our working minimum-wage poor neighbours living right here in our own municipalities "do not have the strength to influence legislation." Or do not speak sufficient English.

Welcome to Canada, eh?

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[creepycraig73]

The amazing thing about Murrow crippling McCarthyism wasn't his editorializing, it was the fact he let McCarthy hang himself with his own erratic words and deeds. Amazing what you could do with the news before all of the networks starting cowering to sponsors.

[MISSISSAUGAWATCH]

@creepycraig73

There have been a lot of comments on this video but you sure GET IT.

Yes, Murrow used McCarthy's own words and deeds.

You also wrote, "Amazing what you could do with the news before all of the networks starting cowering to sponsors."

True. But a reminder that back in the 50's there was just ABC, CBS and NBC. That made for a HUGE audience. Same with newspapers.

Nowadays no network/internet-source has that kind of massive following. All too fragmented now...

[fredrickausterlitz]

Murrow was just another mindless liberal in a long line of mindless liberals that make up the mainstream media. He deserves neither respect nor admiration.If he were broadcasting today, thankfully he would be exposed for who he really was since we now have alternate media sources to balance out the liberal bias. In Murrow's day mainstream liberal bias was all the people had for news sources.Murrow's era was truly the Dark Ages of journalism.May it stay forever buried along with him.

[MISSISSAUGAWATCH]

@fredrickausterlitz

"Murrow was just another mindless liberal in a long line of mindless liberals" and "Murrow's era was truly the Dark Ages of journalism.May it stay forever buried along with him."

Um. You need to turn off Fox (non)News and seek out a doctor for some meds. I'm sure there's something for your pathology.

[NOBULLSPIN1]

McCarthy was right in the 1940's and the 1950's and McCarthy is still right today in 2010!! The person doing the voice over for this video is 100000% wrong period! McCarthy was a great man indeed! A++++ The left wing and or liberals will always hate America! If you don't like America and if you do don't like Capitalism then you need to move out of America now and move into a communist or a socialist country!

[MISSISSAUGAWATCH]

@NOBULLSPIN1

"The left wing and or liberals will always hate America! "

Hey, that's quite the LIE to crap out what with an alias like "NOBULLSPIN1"

Keep lyin'!

[onenanashi]

"If none of us had ever read

a 'dangerous' book or had a friend

who was 'different' or never joined an organization that advocated 'change' we'd all be the kindof people Joe McCarthy wants. We're gonna go with the story, because the terror is in this room." (Taken from the screenplay.) Journalism... newsreporting.. nay, citizenship at its finest. RIP Sir Murrow.

[tienshanpai]

It's because there are 3 kinds of education you get.What you learn in school,What you learn in life through living, and what you seek out and get for yourself.....

[albertpparker]

@MISSISSAUGAWATCH Another mindless comment from a mindless Conservative....probably does not even know who Tailgunner Joe was.....

[MISSISSAUGAWATCH]

@alnitemike

"never quizzed nobody"? "never spoted nobody wrong"?!

And then you write, "but of course to know this you have to read a little."

It's clear that you read "a little", and are barely literate.

What you need to Get It, is to read --and research, a LOT!

My pity to you.

[alnitemike]

McCarthy never quizzed nobody about his personal ideas, he quizzed them if they were on the payroll of the Kremlim, and never spoted nobody wrong, but of course to know this you have to read a little.

[xredrumx831]

Edward R. Murrow, spoke words that should be handed down as legacy to every generation of Americans. Joseph Wershba, CBS News wrtiter, editor and correspondent.