WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:19:15 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg broadcasting – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Murrow, Edward R. -- Speech, The Family of Man Award, The Protestant Council of New York (Oct 1964) https://wist.info/murrow-edward-r/6866/ https://wist.info/murrow-edward-r/6866/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:52:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=6866 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 most sophisticated satellite has no conscience. 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 (1908-1965) American journalist
Speech, The Family of Man Award, The Protestant Council of New York (Oct 1964)
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His last public speech. Reprinted in Alexander Kendrick, Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow (1969). ]]> https://wist.info/murrow-edward-r/6866/feed/ 0 6866