I think it was last year I read a book about American correspondents in World War II. I was a bit upset as it didn't have any of the news broadcasts by Edward R. Murrow. His radio broadcasts from London---often beginning "This is London"--- during the Blitz electrified America and helped sway many of those who held isolationists views to support the British. He helped convince us the British people were going to stand up to the strain of the war, and defeat Germany. This despite the efforts of some American---like our ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy---to convince us the British would lose.
What the British did during the early years of World War II proved the truth of Churchill's June 1940 speech in the House of Commons, when he stated, "...if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
I was lucky to find this one on PBS, despite it having obvious water damage when I received it.
They just don't make journalists like Murrow anymore, and maybe this is why we think so poorly of journalists today.
What the British did during the early years of World War II proved the truth of Churchill's June 1940 speech in the House of Commons, when he stated, "...if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
I was lucky to find this one on PBS, despite it having obvious water damage when I received it.
They just don't make journalists like Murrow anymore, and maybe this is why we think so poorly of journalists today.
