Thursday's Thought

Edward R. Murrow was arguably the father of broadcast journalism in the United States. He established a code of professionalism and integrity that too often seems in short supply amongst our current crop of mass media figures. The following was a part of the broadcast when Murrow essentially called Senator Joe McCarthy on his blatant abuse of power back in the 1950s:

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not
be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember
that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men
who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend
causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."