7 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow about news
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
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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.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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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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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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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