...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for… - Edward R. Murrow

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...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...

Edward R. Murrow

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; 25 April 1908 – 27 April 1965) was an American journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada. Many journalists consider Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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Birth Name: Egbert Roscoe Murrow

Alternative Names: Edward Roscoe Murrow • Egbert Murrow • Edward Murrow • Ed Murrow

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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.

...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it... - Edward R. Murrow

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