Edward R. Murrow: A Short Story

I found that Mr. Murrow had three utmost important topics that were very endearing and focused mostly on them with total honesty, and those were in relation to Senators, Communism and Nazis. Edward Murrow followed up on those things listed throughout his entire career in journalism and media

The term “muckraker” was originally coined in a speech in 1906 accredited to President Theodore Roosevelt.  It was alluding to the man with the Muck-Rake in Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Process.  The Man with the Muck rake seeks material advances by raking filth.  Roosevelt defined this term as "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders".   Muckrakers in the Progressive Era, a time from 1820 until 1920 when America quickly industrialized, pushed for reform and have altered the way we live today.  These reformers brought about the awareness and tackled women’s rights, economic concentration, corporate power, poverty, food safety, and political corruption.

After a couple of hours, I decided to go home. As soon as I got there, there was a news truck pulled into my driveway. A tall lady with blonde hair and blue eyes asked me if she could give me and interview. "So what do have to say about the events that occurred today,"she asked." Well, I really am still trying to take all of this in," I said. "I never suspected this to happen, and I believe that we should be more prepared for if this should happen again." "It was less than a second, maybe half a second, but it changed

It is not always easy to look someone in the face and address their faults. Yet, Clare Booth Luce’s introduction of her speech is straight to the point and effective through her appeals to ethos and pathos as well as various tones to do just that. The purpose of her speech is to criticize the tendency of the American Press to sacrifice their journalistic integrity in favor of the public demand for sensationalist stores. In a number of ways, Luce is successful in setting up her speech’s message and working towards cushioning her audience for her upcoming

While political issues like these were slowly demoralising the soldiers fighting the war, the media were still telling a heavily rose-coloured version of the ‘truth’. When the television images were shown in America before 1968, the editors had policies about what to show: More specifically, there were guidelines that were designed to

I sat down to interview my father, soon to find out how intrigued I was about my dad’s stories. It was late at night, about 7:00 PM. I had asked my dad if I could interview him, and he excitedly accepted.

The main character of the film is Edward R. Murrow, the elegant and severe face of CBS News See it Now. Costumed in sharp suits and stylish patterned ties with glossy slicked back hair, the noir filter exhibits him as an imposing ostentatious figure, flamboyantly smoking a cigarette between his fixed positioned fingers. His voice is a perfect imitation of the real Murrow’s hardened scowl with dry drone-like delivery, expelling gravitas, courage and confidence as he devotes himself to report the truth in the face of McCarthy’s corruption. This nostalgic view of Murrow steals the attention of viewers from his era, especially when reciting his famous monologues on air revealing McCarthy for what he is doing. McCarthy however, is only displayed through existing historic footage of him. This is accompanied by his gravelly and rather grating, monotonous voice, of which becomes repetitive and intrusive as the news team periodically look through footage of his speeches to use against him. This contrast of characterisation between Murrow and McCarthy clearly shows that they are respectively good and evil counterparts of one another.

Frank’s last words were, “Or you can stay in there and we’ll bust our way in.” I still remember the day, when this dreadful, and horrendous event occurred. It was the day when everything changed. The relationship of family was put to test, as well as the relationship of friends. It was July 14, 1959, when the whole country was put to the test. I recall the night, when everything was perfect. The beautiful starry night sky which was glowing in the dark night sky, and the graceful sounds of the wind whistling beneath my body. All my neighbors had come over to my house, to celebrate the joyous occasion of my birthday. Halfway throughout the party, my son had come up to us and mentioned that he heard the news anchor say, “Tune in to the conrad channel.” Of course, we were all concerned, and felt uneasy, and knew that it was time to make a run for it.

Nobody could have known that on September 20th, 1878 in Baltimore, a man who would eventually revolutionize the media and bring the term muckraking to the forefront of cultural perception would be born. At the time, America was still

Murrow continues his speech to elaborate on the power of broadcast journalism. Murrow explains that the television is a platform to educate and inform the public. It is a place for debating and questioning the status quo. Yet, it is being used for entertainment and mundaneness.

Though America entered the 20th century with unbridled confidence and optimism, many of its citizens were not as enthusiastic. Working long hours in frightful conditions for little pay, they were exploited by the massive industrial trusts that powered the economy. They had no voice until a group of fearless journalists, the muckrakers, took up their cause. The impact of the muckrakers’ earned them a nickname and helped start the Progressive Era in the United States.muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines. The modern term is investigative journalism, and investigative journalists today are Just as the muckrakers became well known for their crusades,

The history of the muckraker’s started when a group of reporters and Journalist uncover and reveal unformal and discrimination of wrong doing so serious that it made the peoples blood over flow,1902 started the strike of Lincoln Steffens that was published in the McClure’s Magazine call “Tweed Days in ST. Louis”. Steffens uncover how city officials work in large business to keep their contract and power, taken money from the public treasure, while other article began to emerge, so Steffens wrote a book call “The Shame of the Cities”. The Muckraker’s came up with the truth fact about the Socio – economic, and political problem that was happen in American. There were many changes far as social and politics across the board from the19th century to the start of the 20th century raising the public opinion by the way of sickness that were brought on by industrial revolution for examples; the arrangement between large organization, political machines, and bad working conditions. There were four main muckraker’s who started it all, Ida Tarbell, Thomas Lawson, Ray Stannard and Steffens. The Muckraker’s was famous about doing wrong and telling on very important people in the society, they were call dirt and grime because they would stool to their lowest about political corruption, business, and government problem, they also put an end to advertising by boycotting, while the magazines fell into

As the Progressive Era advanced rapidly into the 1920s, social tension and stigmas between upper class society and the working class continued to escalate. While class strain was not a new social issue, groups such as the muckrakers and drove the problem into a new realm of discrimination and humiliation for the lower class. As these journalists reported demeaning, and generally exaggerated, stories about poor living conditions in poverty stricken areas: “The so-called muckrakers were investigative journalists whose aggressive reporting played a crucial role in educating the upper and middle class about political and corporate wrongdoings as well as about ‘how the other half lives’ - the title of Jacob Riis’s pioneering work of photojournalism

This I Believe is an organization where people can submit essays that share their beliefs without the fear of being criticized. Founded in 1951 by Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe invites “people of all kind who need have nothing more in common than integrity” to “talk out loud about the rules they live by, the things they have found to be the basic values in their lives.” (Edward Murrow, “Introduction to the Original This I Believe”) Whether someone writes their essay about climbing Gasherbrum II (Pakistan) like Phil Powers or a belief in waffles like Brenda, everyone has beliefs and everyone has the right to share them. Murrow found a way to allow people to do this.

Journalism has been something that people have done for a long time. Most journalists put their entire life into their work. Around the time set of the movie the possibility of war was on the verge of happening. Even now almost sixty years later we are still on the verge of war. For a journalist it was hard dealing with ethical challenges then and now.