BACKGROUNDERS: Ed Murrow & Fred Friendly
After last week’s special screening (and discussion) of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a couple of students came in to chat about story of Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly. Of course, to most of our younger students, these legendary broadcast figures are vague names they barely know, if they had heard of them at all. I encourage you to learn more about both men and the profound impact they had on American journalism, society and history (including the circumstances that led Friendly to leave CBS and become a professor at the J-school; I was fortunate enough to have been among the last classes that Friendly taught a few classes to; I still have a signed copy of the U.S. Constitution; he was famous for giving them away (by that point, he had had a couple of strokes, but was bravely soldiering onl; mine’s signed to “Srw” - he misheard “S-R-double-E”).
Sites on Friendly:
FredFriendly.org (based in the first floor of the school)
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Committe to Protect Journalists
Sites on Murrow:
American Masters
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Joe Wershba essay in EvesMagazine
