"Good Night, and Good Luck"

The film “Good Night, and Good Luck” is very fascinating film. I think it well reconstructs the roles of Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly during the Joseph R. McCarthy era. Their news program See It Now is the cornerstone of the new electronic journalism. It showed to the American public that the television has taken the role as public service from the newspaper journalism. The newspaper journalism has failed to protect and inform to its audiences about the tricks McCarthy had used to manipulate Americans’ mind during the communist threats.
To expose Joe McCarthy’s tricks, Murrow didn’t write about how McCarthy’s methods have used. Instead, Murrow showed his audiences about McCarthy’s televised performance in order to prove what kind of man McCarthy was. Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches to criticize the senator and point out where he had contradicted himself. The technique Edward R. Murrow has used to expose McCarthy was unique and very effective.