Murrow Quotes

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. (Naomi Wolf)
When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow. View quote
David Strathairn
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it. View quote
Daniel Schorr
Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine? Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? View quote
Jonas Salk
I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz. View quote
Dennis Miller
I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried. View quote
David Strathairn
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow. View quote
David Strathairn
The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked. View quote
George Clooney
You want me to tell Ed Murrow what to say or what not to say?...I'll tell him you said so, Governor, and thank you very much for your opinion. View quote
Bill Downs
Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix. View quote
Bill Moyers
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage. (Dan Rather)