Murrow

Murrow thoroughly helps to explain in extreme detail what he saw, felt and thought about the events. He restates who he is talking to with enough detail that the people in the U.S. don’t have to see it on a screen, like we do today, in order to understand and visualize what’s going on. The narrative style that Murrow uses makes it so that people don’t have to be there in order to realize that the events going on are very real.
Murrow’s broadcast was elaborate and step-by-step. He was able to convey the entire story in detail as he traveled. Murrow used descriptions throughout the narration. Descriptions like the “dirty gray clouds turned white,” that Murrow explained while he was in the airplane is very powerful, especially as he neared Berlin. “By this time we were about thirty miles from our target area in Berlin,” Murrow said. “That thirty miles was the longest flight I have ever made.” Listeners at home understand that Murrow has flown much more than thirty miles before, since he is across the Atlantic, elaborating the tension and fear that was being felt.