Murphy Brown (TV Series) The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting (1990) User Reviews

Murphy on the spot.

[mark.waltz · 10/10 · 26 March 2021]

As our world turns, so does journalism, finding necessary changes as people change and as corruption looms everywhere around us. This episode, even before the creation of the internet, reflects the changes as Murphy takes on the responsibility of teaching her old journalism professor, William Schallert, new factors in the world of reporting the facts and how to get them without losing integrity. A reunion with him has made him decide to open a journalism school in her name, and while flattered, she is upset to discover that his old fashioned ideals don't work in 1990 as they did in 1965. This came out at a time when cable TV was expanding and various types of news networks were gaining attention. It's a great insight to a man with noble ideals who is forced to face reality and accept a changing world that he hasn't kept up with. Schallert's character has great integrity, maybe outdated in concept, but he does have one quality that hasn't dated, the ability to give his students hope and push them in the right direction. Mr. Hamilton (Schallert) and Murphy do come to one conclusion, that teaching and learning never stops, and that we learn from each other.