Goodnight and Good luck
In the film, Good Night and Good Luck, director George Clooney takes the audience back to the days of 1950s television. To be more specific, the film focuses on the news team responsible for the CBS public affairs program See It Now (1951-58). This film shows the audience the semi-fictional recreation of the near-destruction of civil liberties and freedom of the press and self-expression. The cast recreates the great "debate" between Edward Murrow, and Joseph McCarthy. Murrow was a television news broadcaster and McCarthy was A U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. In the 1950s, McCarthy had publicly called for the removal in government offices, the career field, and basically society, of all citizens who had ever been a or associated with the communist party, even though it was not illegal. McCarthy used the power of his position to attack all those he disagreed with by hiding his attack under the appearance of patriotism. Murrow, as a TV news broadcaster, fought against McCarthy’s techniques and successfully challenged and eventually discredited the senator on his show. Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, a man from Dexter Michigan, who is facing removal from the Air Force because of his sister's political leanings and because his father reading a newspaper. Murrow attacks McCarthy on one of his shows. A very public issue stems when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. The film is outlined by Murrow’s speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly cautions his audience not to waste the potential of TV to inform and educate the.