Comparing Mccarthy In Good Night And Good Luck

In this short play, “Good Night, and Good Luck.” based off the CBS news show See It Now in 1954 that was later made into a movie directed by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes a rebuttal to the statements said by newscaster Edward R. Murrow about McCarthy. Murrow stated that his methods towards Communists were unfair and unethical. Murrow did not agree with McCarthy, he believed in the something completely different. Murrow shared this belief, going against McCarthy, on live news. A month before McCarthy came on for his rebuttal, CBS ran a report about him that was labeled “controversial.” If McCarthy opposed anything in the report and wanted to clear anything, he had the chance to come on air and say as he wanted. “He proved again that anyone who exposes him, anyone who does not share his hysterical disregard to decency and human dignity and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution must be either a Communist or a fellow traveler.” (Good Night, and Good Luck 1246). Since Murrow did not believe in what McCarthy did, Murrow made his list which consists of individuals …show more content…
“Now Mr. Murrow, by his own admission was a member of the IWW, that’s the Industrial Workers of the World, a terrorist organization cited by an Attorney General of the United States.” (Good Night, and Good Luck 1245). But this soon was taken up as a lie that was corrected by Murrow, “He claimed but offered no proof that I had been a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. That is false. I was never a member of the IWW, never applied for membership.” (Good Night, and Good Luck 1246). McCarthy even stated that he could be on the side of Socialism because he received a book from Professor Harold Laski, who was a socialist. Murrow received that book, not because of socialism, but because they both believed that political principles don’t have to be the same for people to