Topic: Edward Murrow

You can forget the cigarette. But we'll see whether Charlie Rose or Lara Logan pay homage to Edward R. Murrow's famous interview series by showing...

Robert Pierpoint, of CBS News, 86

Robert Pierpoint, who covered the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and six Presidents over a 40-year career at CBS News, died...

Molloy: Mad dash for hurricane batteries

The folks at Weinstein & Holtzman Hardware on Park Row collapsed into paroxysms of laughter when a frantic customer asked the question of the day:...
Don't fill in this field Focal Point Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . This week, I joined the Sidney Hillman Foundation as the lead blogger for...

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 25

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 25. Apr. 25, 2011 (PR Newswire) - . /* Style Definitions */ span.prnews_span { font-size:8pt;...

Channeling Murrow

A half-century ago, on the day after Thanksgiving, Edward R. Murrow shocked America and the just-elected Kennedy administration with his searing TV...
With 'Morning Glory' opening, 5 movies about television that are must-sees"Morning Glory" reveals the further encroachment of entertainment into news, with Harrison Ford playing an old-school anchor who's forced to co-host a network morning program. Merely the notion of fashion ...
What follows is a report I am working on based on the movie 'Good Night, and Good Luck', which is about Senator Joseph McCarthy and reporter Edward R. Murrow's battle in the early 50's. So here we are, McCarthy, Murrow ...
Mainstream media news is feeding us a steady diet of pap and red herring, and we are eating it up. If you depended on mainstream media for your news you would without doubt know more about celebrities and sensational crime than Dick ...
Some may argue that broadcast journalism was born in the time frame of 1937 with the rise to fame of Edward P. Murrow. In 1928 Larsen, who was then General Manager of Time Magazine, joined forces with Time's radio executive, Fred ...