October 3, 2005

Good Night, and Good Luck

WNYC's On The Media has a great interview with Joe and Shirley Wershba, two of the journalists at CBS working with Edward R. Murrow when he took on Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. They're talking about the new film about the confrontation, Good Night, and Good Luck [trailer, review].

One quote from Murrow that I love, in response to the fears a lot of people at CBS had about the consequences of taking on McCarthy: "Terror is right here in this room. No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."

Posted by bug to Media at October 3, 2005 8:00 PM | TrackBack
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