Ed Murrow was always conscious that television's power for good was no greater than its power for evil.

[Quoting Ed Murrow:] "It takes two to speak the truth-one to speak and another to hear."

Communication is not to be confused with communications, Ed Murrow would say.

Murrow regarded television as a sound-equipped mirror held behind American society, reflecting its good and its bad, both only too real. He affixed to the electronic mirror a magnifying lens and a powerful focusing searchlight.