Carolina QuotesThis program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading—the sum total of our experience.
Edward R. Murrow Carolinian
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Introducing the first broadcast of "This is the News" (September 1947)
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- 1947
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“This program is not a place where personal opinion should be…” Edward R. Murrow. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A0AC56EF1B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a0ac56ef1b
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