"Murrow Turning Over in His Grave" is a Fleetwood Mac song written by Lindsey Buckingham; it's on their 2003 album, Say You Will.
[Wiki - Free Encyclopedia]
~~ The song references Edward R. Murrow, a mid-20th century American newsman known for his honesty and integrity.
~~ Edward Roscoe Murrow (1908 - 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
...From 1952 to 1957 he produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He is held is high esteem by fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick. [end - Wikipedia excerpt]
(Years after See It Now ended my dad would say, with a sort of low-key bemused indignation, "They took off Edward R. Murrow and put on The Beverly Hillbillies..."
He seemed to have an uneasy feeling of where that relatively new invention then, television, was headed....)
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You can listen to the song on You Tube:
If you type it in, the album version will probably come up at the top; and below it, there's a video of Lindsey Buckingham performing the song before a live audience with his own back-up band.
Both good.
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