Towards the beginning of the Watergate scandal, before it really broke open, it was largely ignored by most news sources. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were intrigued by what was going on with Watergate and were called to work on a story …show more content…
Murrow is legendary. Edward Murrow is kind of to people in broadcasting industry what Alexander the Great is to military strategist. He was an extremely prominent figure in the pioneering of electronic news gathering as a craft and a profession. Murrow began his career at CBS, after CBS he became the director of the United States Information Agency for the Kennedy administration. However, it was during 1939 that Murrow really caught the attention of the American public; Murrow did rooftop broadcasts during the Battle of Britain. Murrow later essentially created a prototype of the TV documentary with his team through their work See It Now. Murrow even extended the technological reach of electronic newsgathering with his work Small World. CBS eventually began to decrease Edward Murrow’s profile because he presented too many trying situations, which is ironic since Murrow is now known as “the patron saint of American