{"id":2573,"date":"2005-12-30T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:17:12","slug":"edward-r-murrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2005\/12\/30\/edward-r-murrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward R. Murrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was impressed by\u00a0&#8220;Good Night And Good Luck&#8221;. The movie is set during the witchhunts of the McCarthy era\u00a0and\u00a0focuses on one of the greatest TV- and radio journalists of all times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum.tv\/eotv\/murrowedwar.htm\">Edward Murrow<\/a> and his work for CBS. The movie is a sobering\u00a0reminder of the vital function of a free press as a guardian against radicalism and as a protector of civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>By the way: Murrow&#8217;s portrayal as an intense chainsmoker rarely seen without a cigarette is entirely accurate. Murrow contracted lung cancer. He died in 1965, two days after his 57th birthday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3178\">Don&#8217;t Believe It When You See It<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2766\">Extract From A Letter By Thomas Jefferson To Charles Yancey<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2347\">World Press Freedom Index 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2573\">Edward R. Murrow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was impressed by\u00a0&#8220;Good Night And Good Luck&#8221;. The movie is set during the witchhunts of the McCarthy era\u00a0and\u00a0focuses on one of the greatest TV- and radio journalists of all times, Edward Murrow and his work for CBS. The movie is a sobering\u00a0reminder of the vital function of a free press as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}