Edward R. Murrow: Poet of Mankind

The rewards of CBS’s top-flight broadcaster are prodigious; his awards are numerous; he has been credited (pace Marconi) with destroying “the superstition of distance and time.” And yet . . .

Edward R. Murrow, the “reporter and news analyst” who is also on the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System, earned last year $317,076. This pile of loot, the highest awarded any company officer in the industry, did not include Murrow’s royalties from Person to Person, a celebrity-interview program.

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The rewards of CBS’s top-flight broadcaster are prodigious; his awards are numerous; he has been credited (pace Marconi) with destroying “the superstition of distance and time.” And yet . . .

Edward R. Murrow, the “reporter and news analyst” who is also on the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System, earned last year $317,076. This pile of loot, the highest awarded any company officer in the industry, did not include Murrow’s royalties from Person to Person, a celebrity-interview program.