Goodnight and Good Luck
Being a journalist during the 1940’s-1950’s was no easy task. The long hours and never-ending criticism took a major toll on each of them daily. Their opinions were constantly ridiculed, so was the truth. This film focuses at the start on Edward R Murrow being honored for his work on TV. Instead of making said honor focused on his accomplishment though, he goes a bit deeper in his speech. He speaks with a purpose about how TV should no longer just be solely for entertainment and fun. He says it needs to be educational to those watching. People should be gaining knowledge, not losing brain cells. This was a strong opening to the entire documentary as the rest of the documentary is people bringing each other down, exposing one another, and all around negativity around the profession they are all doing.
CBS was the company they were all were all working for at the time. There were so many different controversies at this time in the media, but the main target was those in support of communism/ those who were communists. With that being said, the “bright” faces on television began to use this as a target for the people around them. At the hardest of times they would be accusatory of someone working for CBS being communist. When this occurred, that person kind of laughed it off because she had expected this immature nature, and she spoke her own truth.
The entire documentary was very fast-paced but it was deep and it was real. Back then with the amount of anger people had at each other and the world, there was so much behind the scenes that nobody knew about. This film brings this to light very well and is not only entertaining, but educational.
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