He’s No Murrow. He’s Stewart. And That’s Plenty. Stewart doesn’t need to be the next Murrow to play a significant and laudable role in the public life of this country. The men, their deeds, and their times defy easy comparison. Stewart has become an eloquent and eminent public prosecutor against much that is wrong about Washington (and sometimes the people who cover it). Murrow risked his life during World War II to change the nature of broadcast news forever, eventually stood up to McCarthyism, and then held out as long as he could against the corrupting influence of money and politics in television news. If Murrow had done one of these things, he would be revered today. That he did all three helps explain why Murrow was probably the single most important journalist of the 20th Century. Continue reading… The Atlantic

He’s No Murrow. He’s Stewart. And That’s Plenty.

Stewart doesn’t need to be the next Murrow to play a significant and laudable role in the public life of this country. The men, their deeds, and their times defy easy comparison. Stewart has become an eloquent and eminent public prosecutor against much that is wrong about Washington (and sometimes the people who cover it). Murrow risked his life during World War II to change the nature of broadcast news forever, eventually stood up to McCarthyism, and then held out as long as he could against the corrupting influence of money and politics in television news. If Murrow had done one of these things, he would be revered today. That he did all three helps explain why Murrow was probably the single most important journalist of the 20th Century.

Continue reading… The Atlantic

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