{"author":"Edward R. Murrow","author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"We cannot make good news out of bad practice.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["practice","news","good news "],"id":7861,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["democracy","dissent","totalitarianism"],"id":12743,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["entertainment","media","news","show-business","television"],"id":27497,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["media","news"],"id":58109,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["experience","life","prejudice"],"id":61440,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. ","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["media","news"],"id":62150,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["history","motivation"],"id":67582,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["communication","distribution","gossip","news"],"id":119414,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["men","want","loved "],"id":179119,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["politics"],"id":194495,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}