It is my desire if not my duty to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about...
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Edward R. Murrow:
It is my desire if not my duty to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening in radio and television, and if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it. Our history will be what we make of it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred year from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks, they will there find, recorded in black and white and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. We have 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 use 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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It is my desire if not my duty to try to talk to you journeymen
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with some candor about what is happening to radio and television
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And if what I say is responsible
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I alone am responsible for the saying of it
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Our history will be what we make of it
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And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now
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and there should be preserved
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the kinescopes of one week of all three networks
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they will there find recorded in black and white and in color
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evidence of decadence escapism
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and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live
Clip duration: 37 seconds
Views: 175
Timestamp in movie: 00h 04m 17s
Uploaded: 28 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, history
Summary: Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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