Few media-driven myths are as tenacious as the notion that Edward R. Murrow abruptly ended the communists-in-government witch-hunt of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
The myth dates to March 9, 1954, when Murrowâ??s 30-minute See It Now program on CBS television examined the campaign of innuendo, exaggeration, and half-truth that McCarthy had been waging for more than four years.
And the myth was invoked today at Minnesota Public Radioâ??s online site, in a commentary that declared:
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