David Strathairn Murrow Quotations

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

In a way, they did just what Murrow did -- they let McCarthy speak for himself.

You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns.

I think they were being kind saying that. Murrow read his stuff, so I had that ace in the hole. If I froze in front of the camera, I could always just look down. But George said, 'We want you looking at the camera a little bit more than reading, OK?' ... And it was scary.

Ed Murrow said that it would be a bad day for television if those who have most money control the marketplace of ideas. He said that in 1950. It's coming to pass.