What would Dan 'Rather' say? 3/9/1954=Murrow's takeDOWN of McCarthy

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Dan Rather has announce that tomorrow March 9th, will be his last broadcast. It is the anniversary 24 years to the day of his replacement of Walter Cronkite. UNCANNY though it is also 51 years to the day of Edward Murrow's famous expose of Joe McCarthy on CBS's "See It Now" show where Murrow, who was targeted by McCarthy- for one of his 'scarlet letters', was taken down and the 'red-baiting' of THAT time was stood up to & eventually quelled.

On the night of the broadcast, March 9, 1954, the night the spear was hurled against the terror that held America in thrall, Edward R. Murrow spoke words that should be handed down as legacy to every generation of Americans:

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility."

WHILE RESEARCHING BILL MOYER'S LAST 'OFFICIAL' PROGRAM I FOUND THIS EXCERPT OF WHAT MURROW SAID ON THAT 3/9/1954 "SEE IT NOW" 'program' about the Rush Coulter/Ahhnold Bush of HisDay!

Substitute Bush for McCarthy and Edward R. Murrow's remarks about the junior Senator from Wisconsin are as relevant today as when spoken.

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.

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


Sadly, we seem to be just that.
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Edward Murrow:
It has been the enemy of kings and tyrants of the bosses of industry and politics. It has been stomped on at times, more often controlled and distorted--but in the end, it almost always prevails. It's called "truth."(paraphrased)

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Edward R. Murrow was my last hero. When this nation was drowning in cowardice and demagoguery, it was Murrow who hurled the spear at the terror. The spear was his See It Now television broadcast on Senator Joe McCarthy.

Murrow did not kill off McCarthy or McCarthyism, but he helped halt America's incredible slide toward a native brand of fascism. Unbelievable. You had to live through the times to know how fearful -- indeed, terrorized -- people were about speaking their minds. The cold war with Russia, the threat of a hot war with China, security programs and loyalty oaths -- all had cowed the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth into keeping their minds closed and their mouths shut. The Senate of the United States. in order not to appear Red, chose to be yellow. It was the Age of McCarthyism. Edward R. Murrow helped bring it to an end.

He was the most famous newsman in broadcasting, but he spelled out the limitations of his trade. "Just because the microphone in front of you amplifies your voice around the world," he'd say, "is no reason to think we have any more wisdom than we had when our voices could reach only from one end of the bar to the other."

His writing was simple, direct. He used strong, active verbs. On paper, it looked plain. The voice made the words catch fire. He regarded the news as a sacred trust. Accuracy was everything. And, always, fairness.

When we looked at the near-final cut of the McCarthy broadcast and the staff showed fear of putting it on the air, Murrow spoke a line that landed like a lash across our backs: "The terror is right here in this room." And later: "No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." When someone asked what he would say on the McCarthy broadcast, he replied, "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' nor had a friend who was 'different,' or never joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants."

On the night of the broadcast, March 9, 1954, the night the spear was hurled against the terror that held America in thrall, Edward R. Murrow spoke words that should be handed down as legacy to every generation of Americans:

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility."

Edward R. Murrow, the man I often addressed as "Father," was my last hero.

http://www.evesmag.com/murrow.htm
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On 9th March, 1954, Murrow's See It Now programme, dealt with McCarthyism. During the broadcast Murrow commented: "The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthty's methods to keep silent. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmurrow.htm
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Edward R. Murrow Reports
Hear Excerpts from Some of Murrow's Most Famous Broadcasts

'Dunkirk' CBS Radio, June 2, 1940

'London Rooftop' CBS Radio, Sept. 22, 1940

'Berlin Raid' CBS Radio, Dec. 3, 1943

Commentary on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, CBS-TV's 'See it Now,' March 9, 1954

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1872668
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here is the transcript of that show!Murrow/McCarthy CBS "SEE IT NOW" mARCH 9TH 1954
listen @ http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/Murrow540309.html
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Cronkite: 'See it Now' and McCarthy


All Things Considered, March 9, 2004 · Commentator Walter Cronkite marks the 50th anniversary of a watershed event in television news. In 1954, Edward R. Murrow's See It Now series took on the tactics of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who accused many in government and media of being Communist dupes. Cronkite says the pioneering broadcast by Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, helped pierce the bubble of McCarthy's demagoguery.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1753982
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3/10/2004
A Date to Remember: Murrow Vs. McCarthy
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Media Musings
— amy @ 9:49 pm

Are you now, and have you ever been, a journalist?

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most courageous moments in journalism – the airing of the CBS TV See It Now episode in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the deceit, bullying, and manipulation of the then-powerful Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To commemorate this, on Tuesday NPR aired a thoughtful commentary by Walter Cronkite.

http://blog.contentious.com/archives/2004/03/10/a-date-to-remember-murrow-vs-mccarthy
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Small town paper reports on what Rather will be doing after his last official 'program' performance.
IT IS INTERESTING TO SPECULATE IF DAN WILL BE GIVEN ANY TIME TO EDITORIALIZE AND WHETHER he will HELP! ReBirth journalism and the Modern Press and avert the descent into un/in-CREDIBILITY which after all is THEIR 'product'!

The night will mark 24 years to the day that he replaced Walter Cronkite — and comes after months of dealing with the fallout from a flawed ‘‘60 Minutes Wednesday'' report on President Bush's military career.

http://www.montanastandard.com/articles/2005/03/07/newsnationworld_top/hjjejgjcjajaih.txt
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Cronkite, Moyers share views on journalism, democracy in highlight of The Daily Texan's 100th birthday bash
Cronkite, former managing editor and anchor of CBS Evening News, said top management at TV networks today consists of entertainment, marketing and sales people who no longer view news departments as independent operations.

Cronkite complained that the pressure "of market forces on TV news has been so severe as to create a vacuum in news coverage which is exceedingly dangerous to democracy." He said polls show that most people get their news from TV and he said most people are not adequately informed.

"Democracy depends entirely on the information that can be transmitted by a free press. It cannot function without that free flow of information," Cronkite said.

"It is always ignorance that will bring down democracy." Walter Cronkite

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/pubs/oncampus/99oc_issues/oc991012/oc_dailytex.html
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Bill Moyers last comments from his show "NOW" and recent interview

"The Associated Press on Bill Moyers, the original citizen-journalist, whose last "Now" program airs Friday night on PBS. Revealing parting shots:

"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," says Moyers. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." ...

“You don’t get rewarded in commercial broadcasting for trying to tell the truth about the institutions of power in this country,” he goes on. “I think my peers in commercial television are talented and devoted journalists, but they’ve chosen to work in a corporate mainstream that trims their talent to fit the corporate nature of American life. And you do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit-seeking environment.”

MEDIA MONSTER KILLER

Corporate Media, Coming of the Rapture, and the Culture of Fear: Coffee Talk with Bill Moyers
by Nick Welsh

Spend five minutes on the phone with Bill Moyers, dubbed by some “the conscience” of American journalism, and it’s abundantly obvious that the man is troubled, and profoundly pissed off; though it’s doubtful someone so imbued with good Southern manners would use such talk. Now 70, Moyers has spent most of the past 55 years hunting the truth behind his craft, a working journalist tracing the twisted paths of power for both newspapers and television. Embodying that rare combination of graciousness, dignity, and passion, Moyers has been audacious enough to tell “the truth behind the news,” rather than to report the “he-said-she-said” ping-pong that often passes for news. And the truth about the news business — and democracy — as Moyers sees, could not be more grim.

The mainstream news media, Moyers laments, has taken a dive at a time when the power of the Republican Party has never been more absolute and more morally bankrupt.

http://www.independent.com/cover/Cover953.htm
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Harry S. Truman If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely
helps them to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and…the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience. Justice William O. Dougalas

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.-Bill Clinton

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...Bill Clinton

Thomas Szasz said: The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

Kahlil Gibran said:
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Aldous Huxley
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The State…has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives.
Butler D. Shaffer

America is a broken promise, and we are called to do what we can to fix it - to get America back on the track. St. Augustine shows us how: "One loving soul sets another on fire." But to move beyond sentimentality, what begins in love must lead on to justice. We are called to the fight of our lives. Bill Moyers, Aug 2004

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke



It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
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BBC posts historical footage online
The BBC calls its new online library "one of the world's great living treasures." The BBC Motion Gallery features more than 300,000 hours of archive footage up for sale for producers, not to mention more than 700,000 hours of CBS News video. "Licensing was on a by-request basis in the past," said Jan Ross, senior VP at BBC Worldwide. "Now we can help meet the tighter budgets and time frames producers have today."

http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/index.jsp
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What will Dan do!!!! like spring rains more WaterShed like events can help the Growth of NewMedia, NewPeople, NewDays, NewWays and OldDREAMS!

keepin' it real, by uncovering the html-code, modus-operandi the domestic 'programming' pretext/component overtly active in manufacturing consent-the 'mind' sell, and part and parcel of the 'war on terror''physical' aspect to fabricate illusion and condition for top-down Reality control