murrow called them the forgotten people, the undereducated, the underfed. with raw and striking images, murrow's documentary exposed the poverty and deplorable working conditions endured by america's two to three million migrant farm workers. >> only in name they are not a slave. but in the way they are treated they are worse than a slave. >> reporter: men, women, and children who harvested crops for the best-fed nation on earth earned barely enough to feed themselves. >> reporter: what is an average dinner for the family? >> well, we just... you mean what do we have in? >> reporter: yes. >> well i cooked a pot of beans and fried some potatoes. >> reporter: from the tomato, bean, and sugar cane fields of florida, working steadily north to the apple orchards of new york, life was an endless road trip, in housing, crowded, dilapidated, often filthy, but all a worker could afford on an average yearly income of $900. that's about $6,700 today. today, 50 years later, migrant work is still back-breaking. here in immokalee florida, the tomato capital of the countr

murrow. their creator is offered as a paragon of straight reporting.ressured to stop those seering explosions of truth from london. because our political leaders at the time believed they would unfairly influence americans to side with the british when the nation was still officially neutral and the republican party was still completely convinced that there was a deal to be made with the nazis. president roosevelt did not invite him to the white house to congratulate him on his london reports because they were fair and balanced. similarly, the journalism students of now seven different decades have studied the murrow broadcasts about senator joe mccarthy from 1954. these are now lotted as some of the greatest moments in the history of america. the story is told that a cowering profit-hungry press stood idly by or rode mccarthy's paranoia for circulation and ratings, while the blacklist and fear grew. and then murrow slayed the dragon. always left out, sadly, is the truth. within hours of speaking truths based on fact, murrow was attacked as a partisan.

murrow who was beginning to worry about speed at the advent of radio. a lie can spin around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on. that's all the more true in a digital age when you don't even have to wait for a radio broadcast. >> before i let this go, a quick checklist for an information consumer who wants to believe they're dealing with the facts and not with what made them feel good -- but would like to know whether wall street is lending to mesh or extracting all the money out and putting it in their own bank accounts or whether that's just crazy dylan ratigan's opinion. how do you draw those lines? >> the first thing you do is look for what is the source of this and how direct is the knowledge of that source. then you look at what evidence is that source offering. >> in my case, i would point you to the st. louis federal reserve database which tracks the lending activities of the u.s. banking system, then show you the capital outflows from the banks themselves to other countries and the compensation pool, which this year is $144

and then murrow slayed the dragon.hours within speaking truths based on fact, he was attacked as a partisan. the republicans and conservative newspapers and broadcasters described in what they would have insisted was neutral, objective, unbiassed factual that he was a democrat, a liberal, socialist, marxist, communist, a traitor. always left out that the fact these attacks worked. within 12 months, his see-it-now program has been reduced from once a week to once a month. it'd been shifted every tuesday night at 10:30 to once in a while on sunday afternoons at 5:00, becoming as one cbs producer put it "see it now and then." mr. koppel does not mention, nobody ever does, that the year in which he helped save this democracy by including his own editorial judgment in the news was the last year of his life, throughout which he appeared on a regular prime-time newscast. he would be eased out of cbs entirely in seven years and dead in 11. > the great change about what mr. koppel wrings his hands is not analysis, the great cha

this murrow high school and marie, mississippi, this is a camera phone video nonetheless, but they bettero something about him. and he said he took it upon themselves to save these men from the destruction of themselves. deeply remorseful of my actions. and look at that! >> and i'm sorry, pam. you tell your father, tell the police, and then you find a man from las vegas and beat him up! >> pretty and 9nuty >> and occasionally, some of these guys think that they are john wayne and the toll on a power trip. now it is my turn. it is pretty bad. >> pretty bad. >> and a segueway to joe thorton, jackie i turned to you. and what does that mean it to the sharks as they hoped the islanders? >> normally god > and when yo look forward and an illegal hit. david, and jackie says that he is not playing as well and joe, what you have to say? >> i try to play the game pretty clean. sometimes, they do not think that you do but what ever. and the secret is that you could only get guys for six rounds. bill i could hit you [laughter] >> and he was looking down at fred english. and a number one organ, vern gl