Edward R. Murrow Quotes about Communication

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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow

Truth, Communication, Literature

On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York, October 28, 1964.

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

Communication, Technology, Language

On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Edward R. Murrow

Funny, Art, Communication

I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse.

Edward R. Murrow

Country, Communication, Believe

Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois