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"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is ideal for them. I'd like them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the best standards. Tabloid crime stories, a great deal an integral part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; that they had room on his news programs. My book is focused upon this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more folks in and out to the news business are certain to get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrow's principles can be reversed." -Bob Edwards Long before the era of the news anchor, the pundit, and the mini-cam, one man blazed a trail that thousands would follow. Edwards brings to life the fantastic stories Murrow covered and brought into American living spaces for the very first time - the rooftop reports of the London Blitz, bombing raids over Berlin, and the 1954 broadcast that helped lower Senator Joe McCarthy - as well as the fluctuations of his career at CBS. Edwards reveals how Murrow dramatically impacted public judgment and the way the high standards he lived by influenced an entire generation of broadcasters.
