The movie Good Night, and Good Luck shows the conflicts that can arise in a newsroom. We have learned in Mass Communications about media ethics and responsible journalism. In Good Night, and Good Luck the newsman Edward R. Murrow and his news team must decide whether to pursue investigating claims by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin or to focus on less controversial news. Eventually they choose to go after Senator Joseph McCarthy and his senate committees which investigated Americans of being suspected communists. The committee oftentimes would ignore due process and guidelines set by the U.S Constitution. This led Edward R. Murrow and his team to go after McCarthy even though they knew there would likely be retribution. This interesting
