Buck Up, America

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Our Murrow Moment

“The Trump Years promise to be full of Oval Office insults, Twitter attacks and disregard for facts. But rather than viewing the prospect of covering a Trump administration with exhaustion, we should feel invigorated. Because when this time is done, we will look back on it as the best and most important time to be a journalist — not because it was easy, but because it was hard and our sense of mission was clear: to respect the office of the President while holding the person in power accountable against a standard of enduring American values.” 

— Jon Avlon, journalist, “Our Murrow Moment,” The Daily Beast, Dec. 31, 2016

• Editorial Comment: Look back at how Edward R. Murrow handled his bully.


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