We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.Edward R. Murrow
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.
Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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.
Edward R. Murrow
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