January 12, 1951 episode 5. Our ears communicate with the mind and our eyes have a nasty habit of wandering about and daydreaming, rather than listening to what is being said. Hear It Now gives you an immediate sense of 1950's and the thinking the US put into understanding that Korean war. Edward R. Murrow's weekly hour long news program featured news of the week and reports from the Korean War. Hear It Now, was an American radio program on CBS, which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951.