EDWARD R MURROW MUST BE VERY DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED

By Bob Walsh

 

After 99 years CBS is shutting down its radio news programming. That is a damn shame.  At one time they were very good.  I vaguely remember Edward R Murrow.  Our esteemed editor's generation remember him as the American voice from WWII London.  He left CBS in the early 1960s to run the USIA for President Kennedy.  I vaguely remember when that happened.

I understand, at least to some extent, the market forces propelling this decision.  I still think it is a damn shame.

The last broadcast will be in two months.  I will make a point of listening.  It will be truly the end of an era.