[Ads-l] Request help verifying 1959 quotation from journalist Edward R. Murrow.

[Baker, John]

A Documentary History of the United States, https://books.google.com/books?id=GEun0OdclpQC&pg=PT243&lpg=PT243&dq=%22turns+their+proceedings+into+a+circus%22&source=bl&ots=6qYPoqe_bR&sig=WhVTbFhNhwr4gvsf84mgRvcqYoM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIw6io__LMAhWCbB4KHUecCJAQ6AEIPDAG#v=onepage&q=%22turns%20their%20proceedings%20into%20a%20circus%22&f=false, says that this is from Murrow's 1959 "Guildhall Speech on "Television and Politics"" and gives fairly full text, including the paragraph in question.  I don't know how authoritative this source is.


John Baker


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Subject: Request help verifying 1959 quotation from journalist Edward R. Murrow.

I've been asked to trace a quotation that was used in a political
cartoon by the artist David Horsey of The Los Angeles Times in March
2016. The words in the cartoon were attributed to the prominent
journalist Edward R. Murrow.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-clown-president-20160314-story.html

One book asserts that these words were spoken by Murrow during the
Second Granada Lecture in October 1959. There are multiple matches in
Google Books, and it would be great if some list member could help to
verify a contemporaneous citation circa 1959 on paper.

Periodical: The Twentieth Century
Volume 166
Month: Unknown
Publisher: Nineteenth Century and After, London
Article: Television and Politics (I)
Author: Ed Murrow (Edward R. Murrow)
Start Page 382, Quote Page 384
Database: Google Books Snippet Match

[Begin excerpt]
When the politicians complain, as they have in several countries, that
television turns their proceedings into a circus, it should be made
clear that the circus was already there, and that television has
merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
[End excerpt]

The following two citations may refer to the same book (or the same
content) published (or cataloged) under different names.

Year: 1959
Book: Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of
Communication in the Modern World
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Series: Granada Guildhall Lectures
Publisher: Granada TV, London
Article: Television and Politics
Author: Edward R. Murrow
Start Page Unknown, Quote Page 76
(The lecture title "Television and Politics" is displayed on page 45)
Database: Google Books Snippet Match

Year: 1959
Book: British Association Granada Lectures (Granada Guildhall Lectures)
Publisher: Granada TV, London
Article: Television and Politics
Author: Edward R. Murrow
Start Page Unknown, Quote Page 76
(The lecture title "Television and Politics" is displayed on page 45)
Database: Google Books Snippet Match

The goal is to obtain a complete and accurate citation together with
the correct text. The text in the Horsey cartoon appears to be
streamlined. If you could access one of these citations and create a
few scans of the pages showing the full citation data that would be
great.

Below is a 1960 newspaper citation displaying streamlined text:

[ref] 1960 January 20, The Times Record (Troy Times Record), Quotable
Quotes, Quote Page 12, Column 6, Troy, New York.
(NewspaperArchive)[/ref]

[Begin excerpt]
Quotable Quotes

"When the politicians complain that TV turns their proceedings into a
circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and
that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well
trained."—Edward R. Murrow.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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