Edward Murrow Biography

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Chapter 8, The age of suspicion, Portrait of an American:. Edward Roscoe Murrow Murrow has become the nation's hottest radio reporter and announcer. In 1951, CBS launched its first television documentary program "See It Now" moderated by Murrow its producer Fred W.Friendly. Murrow began to board the TV screen. Murrow's high reputation and the "See It Now" wonderful story, creating a television news era. Thus Murrow was not only regarded as a broadcast reporter of the great master, also known as a pioneer in television news. In the post-war era of McCarthyism popular Morrow consciously or unconsciously, to protect the hands of a group of "leftists" staff detained and red hat on, and thereafter a trial of strength with McCarthyism, as he won

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