:: Monday, July 19, 2004 ::

The Fault, Yes, but the Answer Also

Charlotte radio station WFAE interviewed Bob Edwards today about his new biography of Edward R. Morrow.

During the interview, the station played a quote of Morrow's from a special broadcast of his See It Now program in 1954 in which he spoke out against Senator Joe Mccarthy. The substance of it seems just as relevant now, including the line from Caesar:

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men ... who feared ... to defend causes which were unpopular .... The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay ... and whose fault is that? Not really his; he didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

That particular program won Murrow a Peabody, and it also heralded the end of the "Red Scare."

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