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'The man who invented truth':The tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy years
Ist Teil von
Cold war history, 2003-10, Vol.4 (1), p.23-48
Ort / Verlag
Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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This study examines Cold War culture through the institutional history of an agency established specifically to shape that culture: the United States Information Agency, and particularly its best-known director, Edward R. Murrow. It looks at the divergence between Murrow's declared attitude to international information (his 'warts and all' approach) and the reality as experienced by his Voice of America journalists. Cases considered include: the Bay of Pigs; the Berlin Wall and Nuclear Testing issue; the Cuban Missile Crisis; representation of Civil Rights (during which Murrow went some way to redeem himself) and the Vietnam War. Although the article uncovers only a few points at which Murrow impacted on US foreign policy decisions, it argues that the achievements of his tenure are not to be found in overnight successes but in the cumulative flow of information and ideas. It notes the irony that the Cold War was won for the free market but - in terms of information at least - it was not won by free market media, but by the intervention of state-sponsored agencies like Murrow's USIA. Reprinted by permission of Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.