Sam Smith - The end of CBS radio is especially sad for me because when I was a young teen I became a regular fan of Edward R Murrow, the major news voice of CBS. As the Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish said of Murrow's WWII coverage, "You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it. You laid the dead of London at our doors and we knew that the dead were our dead, were mankind's dead. You have destroyed the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not really done at all."
As a Harvard teenager who would become news director of the college radio station, I almost flunked out thanks my involvement with journalism. But I also, at the end of my sophomore year, got a summer job at Washington DC's all news station, WWDC, which turned into a job when I graduated.I covered everything from fires to the White House and when I wasn't out on the street, I was writing nine newscasts a day. Among my role models: CBS news
And it all started with Edward R, Murrow which is why I'll truly miss CBS radio.
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