Edward R. Murrow

<p>Operation Market-Garden promised to lay an airborne red carpet to victory, but its final objective proved to be “a bridge to far.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The United States Information Agency did not long survive the Cold War that it had helped to wage. But, today, the lessons it taught us may be more useful than ever.</span></p>