Archive for October 30th, 2005

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I’m a little busy bringing down the network tonight, Bill.

Good Night, and Good Luck didn’t tell me much I didn’t know about the showdown between Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy, but then I considered myself reasonably informed on the events in question. The real issue is whether those ten and twenty years younger than my forty will learn anything about why the current state of network television news is so pitiful and how far it has fallen.

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