Who Was Edward R. Murrow? Can you handle the truth?
Everything you have been taught about Murrow, is a manufactured lie.
He is credited with bringing down Joe McCarthy.
He didn’t.
Our story begins with William Paley. William Paley was instrumental in setting up CIA. John Grombach had exposed to Truman through his group The Pond the fact OSS had been completely riddled with Soviet paid agents. CIA was set up in response to this and OSS was disbanded. Paley then takes a small radio network called CBS and makes it into one of the biggest radio and TV networks. In fact the set design for news hasn’t changed since he created it. He lobbies the FCC for the incorrectly named Fairness Doctrine. This was an Orwellian name. Say someone wanted to go on the air to discuss an anti-nuclear weapons demonstration or protest against the Korean or Vietnam War, the news department had to call the Pentagon for "the other viewpoint", you know, to be fair and the Pentagon would say no one was available. The news department would then call the protester and say they couldn't be on air because "it wouldn't be fair". Brilliant censorship disguised with the word "Fairness". I will say this for Paley, he had a romantic side.
He'd had a short affair with the legendary actress Louise Brooks. She is considered the greatest actress of the silent era based on 2 films: PANDORA’S BOX and DIARY OF A LOST GIRL. Paley fell deeply in love with her and sent money to her every month until he died. Then he had placed in his will that she would continue to receive the monthly checks until she died. Here is a great documentary about her Narrated by Shirley MacLaine:
When the CIA went after Joe McCarthy, Murrow was their boy.
Murrow was then awarded the U.S. Information Agency which was a front group for the CIA. He quit being a journalist to head a CIA group! Murrow had helped CIA whenever he could. A couple of years earlier, he had been involved in making a See it Now special about Marian Anderson's concert tour through Europe, India, and Asia. The tour of the African American opera singer was a USIA program and was typical of President Eisenhower's presidency which used the USIA to send U.S. artists abroad for positive-image tours. When Louis Armstrong discovered who was behind the tours, he quit doing them as did many Black artists. Others even subverted the CIA's goal. When musicians rebelled against CIA
Murrow's last known involvement in political realms was the weekly meetings at the White House with stoned out of his mind JFK to discuss ways to kill Castro. What the hell kind of journalist is this?
So Paley set up what we know of as “news”, found an easy way to stifle dissent, and hired Murrow. Who was always there to promote secretly backed CIA projects.
There was a critic of Joe McCarthy who had a bigger impact than Murrow ever did. His name was Drew Pearson. He had gone after Joe from day one. He wanted to join CBS News, but because he had refused a direct order from CIA about Eisenhower (he was prone to nervous breakdowns which all the press hid, except for Drew), there was no way CIA founder and CBS news creator Paley would ever hire him.
The myth Murrow brought down Joe is false, Drew Pearson was the syndicated writer who had the most effect on Joe and the way the public saw him.
“60 Years Ago, Edward R. Murrow Took Down Joseph McCarthy,” proclaimed a 2014 HuffPost headline, echoing the narrative immortalized in the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The Pulitzer Center took the same line in a review of journalist Marvin Kalb’s 2018 book, “Enemy of the People,” writing that Murrow’s “television broadcasts turned the tide of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Red Scare’ in the 1950s.”
The truth is that while his anti-McCarthy broadcasts on CBS were damaging, Murrow himself admitted to a New York Times reporter that he was late to the battle: “My God. I didn’t do anything.” The real McCarthy slayers were little-remembered reporters at papers like the Capital Times, along with America’s most-read journalist of the period, Andrew Russell “Drew” Pearson. Pearson saw in McCarthy a witch hunter who couldn’t snare a witch — precisely the sort of faker he’d spent his career exposing. Pearson penned dozens of columns on McCarthy, all scathing, in the months after the senator charged that the State Department was riddled with subversives. His muckraking encouraged Murrow and other journalists to take on McCarthy, and it anticipated arguments that would be raised at the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, which were the senator’s undoing.
Had Drew followed the CIA directive not to disclose Eisenhower’s breakdowns he probably would have been hired to work alongside Murrow at CIA created CBS News. But he defied them, so he has been written out of the history books.
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