Edward R Murrow

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Edward R. Murrow was the most influential figure in the history of broadcast journalism. Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born on April 25th, 1908 on a small farm in Polecat Creek, North Carolina, which is located near Greensboro, North Carolina. His family moved to a small town near the Canadian border in Washington State when he was six years old. When he was in high school, he changed his name to the now iconic Edward R. Murrow. (Bernstein 40)
I found that Mr. Murrow had three utmost important topics that were very endearing and focused mostly on them with total honesty, and those were in relation to Senators, Communism and Nazis. Edward Murrow followed up on those things listed throughout his entire career in journalism and media broadcasting. There have been a large number of people stashed away in the history books, but Murrow stood above them all, as he was the very first person to bring journalism and live broadcasting to life. His most notable traits were recalled as having a voice and style of speech like no other, his words were chosen with care and were hailed as an Idol of his era, but to Murrow, he was just a person sharing news with the world as it was happening.
Murrow gained worldwide notoriety in the field of broadcast journalism, for which he started out as the very first radio reporter to go live from London, England during World War II, then on as a leading individual in television, making controversy on the TV in family homes. He was the soul person to broadcast such things and left a major impact on both Radio and Television media.
Despite Murrow’s initial reservations about television’s viability as a news outlet, “See it Now” began broadcasting in November of 1951. Over the next seven years the progr...

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