Vision in mono (the rise and fall of CBS)

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4. Some CBS history during WWII

The first anchored news broadcast in history was June 6, 1944, D-Day. Robert Trout was called into the studio in the middle of the night (~2:30). He stayed on the air nearly continuously for nearly 8 hours. At that time CBS relied on reports via shortwave radio, a technology CBS helped develope.

I have a copy of that 24 hours of CBS broadcasting in MP3. It is an astounding document of what journalism meant at possibly its prime moment.

CBS had the primo team. Robert Trout, Edward R. Murrow, and the incredible William Shirer, reporting from Nazi Germany (later who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- his memoirs of the second world war).

This is good shit. Murrow's long essays on the Brits, before Pearl Harbor, are iconic. This is London...

I have many of them. They are history on the ground, reported, as only they did, by CBS.

Murrow's gone. Cronkite is gone. Rather is gone. There is nothing left but a shell.