:03:01
...apartheid, J. Edgar Hoover...
:03:04
...not the least of which,
his historical fight with Senator McCan'thy.
:03:09
He is the host of our enormously
popular show Person to Person...
:03:13
...and tonight he is here
with his son, Casey, wife, Janet...
:03:18
...and all of you
who he's worked with, inspired...
:03:22
...lectured and taught.
:03:24
Ladies and gentlemen...
:03:26
...the Radio-Television News Directors
Association and Foundation...
:03:29
...welcomes Mr. Edward R. Murrow.
:03:53
This might just do nobody any good.
:03:56
At the end of this discourse
a few people may accuse this reporter...
:04:00
...of fouling his own comfortable nest...
:04:03
...and your organization may be accused
of having given hospitality...
:04:06
...to heretical and even dangerous ideas.
:04:10
But the elaborate structure of networks,
advertising agencies and sponsors...
:04:14
...will not be shaken or altered.
:04:17
It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk
to you journeymen with some candor...
:04:21
...about what is happening
to radio and television.
:04:24
And if what I say is responsible...
:04:26
...I alone am responsible
for the saying of it.
:04:30
Our history will be what we make of it.
:04:33
And if there are any historians
about 50 or 100 years from now...
:04:37
...and there should be preserved
the kinescopes...
:04:39
...of one week of all three networks...
:04:42
...they will there find, recorded
in black and white and in color...
:04:46
...evidence of decadence,
escapism and insulation...
:04:49
...from the realities of the world
in which we live.
:04:52
We are currently wealthy, fat,
comfortable and complacent.
:04:57
We have a built-in allergy
to unpleasant or disturbing information.