Edward R. Murrow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We cannot make good news out of bad practice.”

“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”

“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”

“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”

“A satellite has no conscience.”

“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”