Journalist Edward R. Murrow and director George Clooney both agree the view on integrity can be altered by a mass hysteria. According to Murrow’s speech on the Future of News Media, he says, “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, and our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.” Murrow believes television and radio has been corrupted by having sponsors only broadcast information that Americans want to hear and not what they need to hear.
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Murrow intends to make the audience realize there are two sides to a story. In Murrow’s speech on the Future of News Media, Murrow says, “But in terms of information we are handicapping ourselves needlessly. Let us have a little competition. Not only in selling soap, cigarettes, and automobiles, but in informing a troubled, apprehensive but receptive public.” Murrow expresses how journalists are limiting themselves because they are afraid to cross over to the other side. He mentions how responsibility plays a major role in shaping the integrity in which is presented. This is shown in director George Clooney’s film Good Night And Good Luck. Clooney believes a journalist needs to overcome every obstacle no matter the given situation, if they want to be a true journalist. According to an interview on About Entertainment by Rebecca Murray, Clooney says, “So we went through the idea of taking sides and how dangerous that might have been and if it was a wrong step or a step in the wrong direction, and we brought that into the story.” Clooney establishes pathos by including words such as “dangerous” and “direction” to show how riskful it is for a journalist to keep their integrity while reporting both sides, agreeing …show more content…
Within his speech on the Future of News Media, Murrow says, “For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must indeed be faced if we are to survive.” Murrow implies the mass hysteria produced by Senator Joseph McCarthy not only isolated the public, but limited them to what news they receive and how they receive it. He compares the “powerful instrument” with how people use their knowledge to communicate by word of mouth, “demanding realities” to both sides of a story, and “survive” to the future of America. This coincides with George Clooney’s movie and perspective of integrity, where what people hear and do shape their views on life and the decisions taken. According to the second page, paragraph 7, Clooney says, “And, look, there are kids getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday getting stories. I think that there is a great amount of beautiful journalism going on. I think that there is a lot of crap out there and it's a different world now.” Clooney describes what it takes to be a true journalist, close to Murrow. He describes how a person who wants to pursue Journalism, must overcome obstacles. For instance, many journalists didn’t want to report nor attack McCarthy, due to their safety purposes. However, Murrow didn’t care whether McCarthy targeted him and
Murrow intends to make the audience realize there are two sides to a story. In Murrow’s speech on the Future of News Media, Murrow says, “But in terms of information we are handicapping ourselves needlessly. Let us have a little competition. Not only in selling soap, cigarettes, and automobiles, but in informing a troubled, apprehensive but receptive public.” Murrow expresses how journalists are limiting themselves because they are afraid to cross over to the other side. He mentions how responsibility plays a major role in shaping the integrity in which is presented. This is shown in director George Clooney’s film Good Night And Good Luck. Clooney believes a journalist needs to overcome every obstacle no matter the given situation, if they want to be a true journalist. According to an interview on About Entertainment by Rebecca Murray, Clooney says, “So we went through the idea of taking sides and how dangerous that might have been and if it was a wrong step or a step in the wrong direction, and we brought that into the story.” Clooney establishes pathos by including words such as “dangerous” and “direction” to show how riskful it is for a journalist to keep their integrity while reporting both sides, agreeing …show more content…
Within his speech on the Future of News Media, Murrow says, “For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must indeed be faced if we are to survive.” Murrow implies the mass hysteria produced by Senator Joseph McCarthy not only isolated the public, but limited them to what news they receive and how they receive it. He compares the “powerful instrument” with how people use their knowledge to communicate by word of mouth, “demanding realities” to both sides of a story, and “survive” to the future of America. This coincides with George Clooney’s movie and perspective of integrity, where what people hear and do shape their views on life and the decisions taken. According to the second page, paragraph 7, Clooney says, “And, look, there are kids getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday getting stories. I think that there is a great amount of beautiful journalism going on. I think that there is a lot of crap out there and it's a different world now.” Clooney describes what it takes to be a true journalist, close to Murrow. He describes how a person who wants to pursue Journalism, must overcome obstacles. For instance, many journalists didn’t want to report nor attack McCarthy, due to their safety purposes. However, Murrow didn’t care whether McCarthy targeted him and