1.0 link 98515 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-edwards/on-edward-r-murrows-100th_b_98515.html Broadcasting began as entertainment. Radio was not a respected source of original daily journalism until 70 years ago last month, and the fellow principally responsible for making that happen was born a hundred years ago today in Polecat Creek, North Carolina. Edward R. Murrow joined the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1935, but he was not originally hired to be a reporter. CBS sent him to Europe to line up entertainers and public figures for broadcasts that would be sent back...

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