Good Night And Good Luck Integrity Analysis

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles or moral uprightness. Your integrity can make or break your career, depending on how you show it in what you do, in Good Night and Good Luck, a movie directed by George Clooney, questions integrity by saying it’s a two-sided world. An argument on integrity is being made that it’s a two sided world and also asks if it’s situation where Edward R. Murrow’s reputation is always in black-in-white because of this. Edward R Murrow’s career has been lead and powered by his integrity, although it sometimes gets him in trouble. On one certain broadcast that the head executive of CBS, William Paley, didn’t want Murrow to do, decided to give him a special offer, “There's a Knickerbocker …show more content…
This shows that these types of companies show little to none integrity since all they want to do is make money off of shows that doesn’t really help anyone. When Murrow starts to talk about Senator Joseph McCarthy, he informs the audience of the wrongdoings that McCarthy has done and it causes nothing but controversy, Murrow continues to talk about McCarthy even though the head executive told him not to and caused him a seat in his office along with his producer and friend Fred in his office. Paley offers him a new assignment where he does a show every Sunday night for five episodes, Murrow looks at him saying, “Why don’t you fire me, Bill?”, he would rather be fired than accept that assignment because it was against what he believed in and what he worked for. “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses..” Murrow says while at a ceremony tributed to him, letting people know that living in ignorance is not a good thing and should know about the hard news that is happening in this world so they know what’s really happening in their