Frases de Edward R. Murrow (70 citas, página 2)

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Edward R. Murrow

Good night, and good luck
Frase con la que acababa sus transmisiones de radio y televisión.

“Su principal logro [el del senador Joseph McCarthy] ha sido el de confundir a la opinión pública (public mind), entre las amenazas internas y externas del comunismo. No debemos confundir disenso con deslealtad. Debemos recordar siempre que una acusación no es una prueba y que una condena depende de la evidencia y del debido proceso de la ley. No caminaremos con miedo, el uno del otro. No seremos conducidos por el miedo hacia una era de sinrazón, si cavamos profundo en nuestra historia y nuestra doctrina y recordamos que no descendemos de hombres temerosos - no de hombres que temían escribir, hablar, asociarse y defender causas que eran, por el momento, impopulares. Este no es el tiempo para que los hombres que se oponen a los métodos del senador McCarthy se mantengan en silencio, o para aquellos que los aprueban. Podemos negar nuestra herencia y nuestra historia, pero no podemos evadir la responsabilidad por el resultado. No hay forma para un ciudadano de una república de abdicar de sus responsabilidades. Como nación hemos recibido nuestra plena herencia a una edad tierna. Nosotros proclamamos ser, y de verdad lo somos, los defensores de la libertad, dondequiera que ésta continúe existiendo en el mundo, pero no podemos defender la libertad en el exterior mediante su abandono en casa. Las acciones del joven senador de Wisconsin han causado alarma y consternación entre nuestros aliados en el extranjero, y dado un considerable confort a nuestros enemigos. ¿Y de quién es la falla? En realidad no es suya. Él no creó esta situación de miedo; él meramente la explotó - y más bien exitosamente. Casio estaba en lo cierto: 'La falla, querido Bruto, no está en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos'.”

Edward R. Murrow

En el ciclo televisivo See it now (“Véalo ahora”) del 9 de marzo de 1954, en el programa titulado justamente A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (“Un informe sobre el senador Joseph R. McCarthy”).

“Lo oscuro acabamos viéndolo; lo completamente claro lleva mas tiempo”

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow: Frases en inglés

“A satellite has no conscience.”

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Edward R. Murrow

On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)

“If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the … confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought.”

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Ford Fiftieth Anniversary Show, CBS and NBC (June 1953)

“If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.”

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Edward R. Murrow

RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor’s yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

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This I Believe (1951)

“The sponsor of an hour's television program is not buying merely the six minutes devoted to commercial message. He is determining, within broad limits, the sum total of the impact of the entire hour. If he always, invariably, reaches for the largest possible audience, then this process of insulation, of escape from reality, will continue to be massively financed, and its apologist will continue to make winsome speeches about giving the public what it wants, or "letting the public decide."”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“We are to a large extent an imitative society.”

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Edward R. Murrow

RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“Good night, and good luck.”

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Edward R. Murrow

Sign off line of his radio and TV broadcasts.

“It seems to me that any action that arbitrarily limits the citizen's access to sight, sound and print, upon which opinion can be based, is, in the true sense of the phrase, un-American.”

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In response to the House Un-American Activities Committee's ban on radio recording and television cameras from public hearings (1 February 1949), quoted in The New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500E1DC173FE03ABC4E53DFB4668382659EDE&legacy=true

“Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity?”

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As quoted in The Saturday Evening Post (December 1949) http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/Murrow_Sticks_to_the_News/pubData/mobile/index.htm#/1/

“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”

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On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964); as quoted in Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow by Alexander Kendrick (1969)

“I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry.”

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Broadcast from Buchenwald (1945)

“I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is--an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate.”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.”

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This I Believe (1951)

“I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. The top management of the networks with a few notable exceptions, has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time nor the competence to do this.”

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Edward R. Murrow

RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”

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On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)

“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 perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts…It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading—the sum total of our experience.”

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Edward R. Murrow

Introducing the first broadcast of "This is the News" (September 1947)

“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

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RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)

“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”

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Edward R. Murrow

1959, Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World, The British Association Granada Lectures, (Three lectures given in Guildhall London in October 1959 on the subject of communication in the modern world), Lecture Title: Television and Politics, Speaker: Edward R. Murrow, Start Page 47, Quote Page 75 and 76, Published by Granada TV, London.