Word: murrow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minimized the contributions of others. A pioneer in television? The CBS chief actually tried to obstruct the new medium's development, fearing it would cut into his radio profits. Champion of broadcasting's most respected news organization? Paley acquiesced to blacklisting in the 1950s and canceled Edward R. Murrow's See It Now because he feared it was too nettlesome to the Eisenhower Administration. As a decision maker, Paley was cautious and vacillating; underlings snickered over his frequent "540-degree turns." Some of his most decisive moves -- like dumping Walter Cronkite from the anchor booth at the 1964 Democratic Convention...
Like his CBS boss Edward R. Murrow, Polk is a model for the American journalist as brooding idealist. Not satisfied with accepting government handouts, he tried to report the Greek civil war from behind the communist lines. Such enterprise disturbed the Royalists. Either they did not understand the role of an independent press or they understood it too well...
Last year the award was won by an independent Polish journalist and organizer of the underground press. Other past recipients include Zwelekhe Sisulu, editor of New Nation of South Africa, and CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow...
...East for the past three weeks, CBS News anchorman Dan Rather has been just where he likes to be: at the center of the action. But last week he missed a big story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since Laurence Tisch took over the network four...
...fabric, fuselage stringers and bulkheads. No plane is immediately discernible in this jumble of disparate parts. You stare for a few seconds, and then the puzzle begins to come together -- a Hawker Hurricane. You drift back 49 years, and you can hear again the urgent voice of Edward R. Murrow coming over the old cathedral radio, describing the dogfights above him in the Battle of Britain. Hurricanes, though less glamorous than the legendary Spitfires, took more punishment and could be patched up and sent back into battle quicker. "I'm an Anglophile," shrugs Dave Peterson, 39, who is directing...