Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareidwas a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys". He was the first to report the fall of Paris when it was captured by the Germans during World War II. Traveling into Burma during World War II, his aircraft was shot down and he was rescued from behind enemy lines by a search and rescue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth26 November 1912
CityVelva, ND
CountryUnited States of America
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
The chief source of problems is solutions.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.