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Edward R. Murrow's son and Marvin Kalb compare broadcast coverage of wars 80 years apart
Comparing today's broadcast reporting on the war in Ukraine with Edward R. Murrow's descriptions of World War II scenes, the CBS icon's son Casey said today's version required immediacy. Casey Murrow, joined by retired CBS correspondent and Russian scholar Marvin Kalb, said April 5 on a Zoom event that his father's reporting on his visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany was not aired live. "He needed a day or two to think about what he had seen, Murrow said, adding that he omitted reporting some of the atrocities he had witnessed because they were so gruesome. Murrow quoted…
Type: News
NPC Communicators Candid Conversation: Combating Global Disinformation
The National Press Club Communicators Team will host an online/virtual “Candid Conversation on Combating Global Disinformation” on Thursday, April 14 at 6:00 p.m. EDT to discuss how public diplomacy, military and Intelligence Community communicators are navigating increasingly complex and muddied information environments. Disinformation has infiltrated nearly every aspect of society. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown that this problem has reached the highest geopolitical, military and diplomatic levels. Distinguished speakers from the Department of Defense, State Department, and…
Type: Event
National Press Club Calls For Release of Russian Activist Vladimir Kara-Murza
WASHINGTON, April 13 – The following is a statement by National Press Club President Jen Judson on the arrest and detention of Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza. “We are calling on the Russian government to release immediately Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of the leading opposition voices in that country. Kara-Murza appeared at the National Press Club on January 30, 2014, to talk about the political situation in Russia. He was outspoken at that time. In 2017 he was poisoned because of his views, although he survived. While best known as a political activist, Kara-Murza also wrote and published…
Type: News