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Edward R. Murrow
March 8, 2024
A. Brad Schwartz
Why We Never Got a “Murrow Moment” With Trump
The days are long gone when a single journalist could fatally wound an American demagogue. But that’s not what actually happened with Murrow’s famous broadcast on Senator Joe McCarthy.
September 28, 2011
Timothy Noah
F for Effort
September 14, 2011
Walter Shapiro
The Idiot Box
August 7, 2006
Jonathan Chait
Thomas Pain
August 22, 1981
Mark Crispin Miller
Mark Crispin Miller on television: 'The air if expectancy was bursting at the seams'.
May 5, 1979
Nicholas Lemann
The Power, The Glory, The Media, The Men, The Money, The Irony, The Symbols, America, The Meaning of It All
Oh What a Big Deal This Is.

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