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It has taken more than 40 years since Edward R. Murrow's retirement for CBS to wreck the brand name Morrow created for the network's news department. The current Rathergate fiasco is a sad commentary on the difficulty corporate cultures have remembering the values that made them great. And no one would have understood the gravity of this "mistake," as Dan Rather finally called it, more than Ed Murrow.... Murrow foresaw the end as well as the beginning. In a speech before the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 1958 Murrow warned: " . . . unless we get up off our...

Faith in Jesus Christ Will Be the Focus of New Journalism Award, Presented at Annual Faith and Values Awards Gala in Hollywood March 18 A new journalism award will grace the Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry next year in March, sponsored by the Christian Film & Television Commission™ ministry, a Christian advocacy group based in Hollywood. The Grace Award in Broadcast Journalism will be awarded each year to the TV newscaster in the secular media who best shows, through accurate journalistic reporting on a true story, how, despite impossible human circumstances, God opened...