Murrow was a stunning example of what journalism should be. His impact on stopping McCarthyism is largely exaggerated: Murrow was only the first reporter on TELEVISION to object to and criticize McCarthy and his methods. Newspapers had been writing on the topic long before Murrow's episode of See It Now. However, Murrow almost single-handedly changed the impact of the medium of television on the general public and started a new wave of journalism that continues to be the most informative.
This is run in the ground many times too much for sineter Mccartey and his 1950s wich hunte.His dont proven thing one way or otherr agintst the person accusede them.
Okay, so can someone please tell me what he's saying?? I have to watch this video for school... And I am being quizzed on it... Help PLEASE!! Much obliged :)
Without Edward R. Murrow, there would have been no Walter Crokite, Eric Sevareid, and a second generation pioneering anchor Douglas Edwards. All are gone and the news is all about bad news. Ever since the media turned to bad news, the good news went to CBS News Sunday Morning. Now it's nothing.
Thanks for posting this interesting piece of history. Recently I saw the feature movie with David Strathairn playing the part of Murrow and now I see he captured this scene very well.
@GameSlut That's beside the point. What matter is that he's using his position as a newsman to preach his own opinion. Though most would agree with that opinion today, it's wrong of him to report it as fact
I'm a journalism student in my final year. One of our lectures featured bits of Good Night and Good Luck. My first journalism hero was Hunter S. Thompson, but now I've seen the likes of Murrow, Woodward and Bernstein, and Walter Cronkite. Hopefully I become as good a reporter as them.
This man had balls. Like, serious balls. Talking about stuff like this in the 50s was like walking into a grinder. I wish more politicians and journalists had the guts to think like Murrow.
@fibbingcats FYI - I just finished Bob Edwards biography of Murrow and it clearly shows in his speech to the Radio-Television New Directors Association on October 12, 1958 in Chicago that he definitely foresaw what was to become in a broad sense of the medium in which he helped to bring forth. Incredible speech and great read.
We need people like Murrow right now, in this time to deflate the tea heads and fight the conservative machine. We cannot have death with dignity with conservatives calling the shots. We cannot have life with dignity with conservatives calling the shots. They have been ruining this country since the HUAC formed in the fifties and the rot is throughout our government now. Get rid of the rot. Do not vote for a republican, EVER!
Whenever I see clips of Murrow, I recall as a child sitting next to my father in front of the television and watching him. There has been no one, and I do mean NO ONE, to compare ever since.
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Murrow was just another mindless liberal in a long line of mindless liberals that make up the mainstream media. He deserves neither respect or admiration.If he were broadcasting today, thankfully he would be exposed for who he really was since we now have alternate media sources to balance out the liberal bias. In Murrow's day mainstream liberal bias was all the people had for news sources.Murrow's era was truly the Dark Ages of journalism.May it stay forever buried along with him.
@acmarietti ahh please don't use LMAO and Murrow in the same sentence!
But yes, I completely agree. If Murrow were alive today, he would be appalled at the state of the news today, and the media's influence (which has completely robbed us of our intelligence and humanity), I don't think he ever imagined how television would affect us as greatly as it has now, and how real time reporting is replaced with five minute expos on britney spears and the murder on 81st st!!
@cheeriosinabowl Dumbing down of the media kicked into high gear with R. Reagan's de-regulation, the trashing of the Fairness Doctrine, the Communications Act of 1934. Naturally, the right wing despised that 'Act'; It prevented them from DOMINATING the media and shutting up opposition. This ilk loves Reagan. He made it all happen for them. Today the ownership of the media is concentrated in the hands of about five or six (if that) huge corporations,
... true what you said. Not only is our society "dumbed down", it is also "mediocre". People nowadays are mediocre, few people strive for excellence or for the betterment of themselves and society anymore. And as for the media, I don't trust it anymore at all. So slanted, one-sided. I even cancelled my tv cable a few years ago, because tv just sickened me. Trash and a waste of time to watch it. Where would Ed Morrow fit in today???
I read a a lot, and I have been inspired by many people and sayings on liberty (not necessarily democracy, as some people confuse them as being one and the same), and this speech is one of my favourites.
Simple, succinct, and timeless, and though Murrow composed this speech in opposition to Senator McCarthy's methods, it is infinitely pertinent to anyone (and I believe we are all humanly capable of it) who perpetuates a state of fear and unreason.
And all those accused, were found to be paid KGB agents, when the KGB files were opened after the fall of Communism. When you look at how much America has changed since the 1950s, understand that didn't just happen by itself. It was due to the activities of communist subversives, in the education system and media.
You have no idea what you're talking about and you're using a tactic of McCarthy's in phrasing it that way.
Some KGB agents and ComIntern files confirmed guilty exceptions that McCarthy stumbled upon, but to say "all" is ridiculous and, I suspect, purposefully exaggerated. The man was paranoid, he accused hundreds of people, to suggest it was accurate is ridiculous. The evidence clearly shows he was sloppy, unprepared and a liar as well.
@AlexanderDina Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the arrest and conviction of 0 KGB agents. That's a zero, a null. The REAL KGB agents were laughing themselves sick at the moron from Wisconsin. A moron not unlike yourself.
To be honest, this speech is relevant to us all, regardless of political persuasion and the hypothetical, subjective, and ambiguous position on a political spectrum - right/centre/left - fear, paranoia can be spread by anyone for their own cause.
It is so sad that now, we still haven't learned anything from this great man. Shame on you Representative King, you have resurrected Senator Joe McCarthy's ghost. Oh how I wish we had more people like Murrow.
Just substitute Palin or Angle or Tea Party for McCarthy and you can see how far (or how little we've come since 1954. Where is Murrow when we need him now? Where have you gone Keith Olbermann our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
@epod34 oblermann is no murrow. as much as i hate tea party and glenn beck types, i gotta say that oblermann is just another media pundit who contributes to the divide.
"During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: Look now, pay later."
Edward R. Murrow.
Did Murrow have the ability to predict the future of Television? Because what he described is exactly what it has become! Shame!
Back when TV had it's moments now and then. As well did we. What happened to us? When did we become such sniveling weenies? When did TV become a corporate propaganda mouthpiece there to control us rather than inform.
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The old communist sympathizer Murrow, now that America has become the new USSR, it can be said that he has finally defeated tail gunner joe. Wonder what tail gunner would have thought about the new Soviet Airport scanners, legalized torture or the ethnic cleansing of the Muslims in their homelands. (a continuation of the Soviet war of 1979.) McCarthy has been proved right, unfortunately it will also prove the end of the free America that the red promoter Murrow so long sought..
@LaBelleParisienne1 Absolutely. This is what reporting and journalism is supposed to look like and sound like... those that work today would be well advised to watch tapes of Murrow and study him... again.
@stargell777 I know! Guys like Keith Olberman and Bill O'Rielly think they're so smart with their big mouths and their ad hominems, today's broadcasters need to get over themselves, set aside political biases, and just tell the news like it is just as Edward did.
Unsupervised capitalism and the thought of competition have destroyed this sort of media. America is the best example. They only think about what will sell. And like that wasn't bad enough, the Republicans controll CNN. What sort of democracy do you expect to grow out a situation like this? And the media is CONSTITUTIVE to a democracy. So maybe one should get rid of all the salesmen and get educated people to run the media.
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home".
It was great that we used to actually have journalists in this country. If we had actually listened to them, maybe they would have stuck around a bit longer.
For my Media Criticism class we are to do a book report on "A Slobbering Love Affair" which analyzes how the media was responsible for Obama winning the election. There's a section talking about Keith Olberman and how he fancies himself as the reincarnation of Murrow yet he's no more than an over-zealous loudmouth. I just had to look these two men up after reading that and I must say, Murrow would NEVER tell Bush to "shut the hell up". My, how the news has fallen...
@Pooleman96 Obama won because America disliked Bush. Keith is a bad example. The worse case is Bill O'Reilly. Bill said "we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up. Americans and, indeed, our allies who actively work against our military once the war is underway will be considered enemies of the state by me. Just fair warning to you, Barbara Streisand, and others who see the world as you." Feb 23, 2003
@TheBlackLesbian "Obama won because America disliked Bush." That's exactly how I see it myself. After reading the book, I figure he could've simply won by that fact alone. It's just that the liberal media milked him way too much.
A media criticism class with a required book that says that Obama only won because of the liberal media and that Olbermann is an over-zealous loudmouth.
@bwc3821 I don't get the irony. There are no great reporters on television today. They're all a slathering mob of fear mongers, half-wits, or dolled up actresses. I have spent a better part of my adult life in newsrooms and I can only shake my head as American journalism sinks into the mire. The only conclusion I have reached as to who is to blame for this is us, the viewers. We have allowed screaming madmen to broadcast their given strain of hate into our homes and ad men to dictate content.
We had a similar example in Italy.. it was Enzo Biagi vs Berlusconi with "Il Fatto" a program closed by Berlusconi in 2001.. Enzo Biagi was also fired under committee of Berlusconi with the "Editto Bulgaro".
@bwc3821 "sign zees papers saying you ver never tortured and za Fuhrer vill let you go home Americona" - yep he wants them to win - wow you must have been in a coma throughout all your history lessons
....by weeding out at least one known "Communist" from the State Department, and believes Murrow's attack on McCarthy was wrong. This, from the man who STILL believes George W. Bush was a "great president"....
Yes, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which owns the various Fox movie and TV enterprises (and the NEW YORK POST) is as close to William Randolph Hearst's old media empire as you can get, 'Airsoft'. In fact, 95% of the editorial columnists in the POST are either neo-conservatives or leaning towards the ultra-far right. John Podhoretz, who contributes to the paper while working for the ultra-conservative COMMENTARY magazine, is an unabashed McCarthyite, and believes the Senator did a public service..
Words of wisdom. "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that acusation is not proof... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
McCarthy was right in the 1940's and the 1950's and McCarthy is still right today in 2010!! The person doing the voice over for this video is 100000% wrong period! McCarthy was a great man indeed! A++++ The left wing and or liberals will always hate America! If you don't like America and if you do don't like Capitalism then you need to move out of America now and move into a communist or a socialist country!
@NOBULLSPIN1 What kind of Right Wing Neanderthal Are You ?????I've seen you on here before,You have got to be a troll to even think that any part of that bullshit Facist idiology is right.
@NOBULLSPIN1@bwc3821 "sign zees papers saying you ver never tortured and za Fuhrer vill let you go home Americona" - yep he wants them to win - wow you must have been in a coma throughout all your history lessons
A great journalist making a great broadcast. I have to admit, I am sort of sorry that he delivered this before the invention of the teleprompter. It would be just that bit more hair-raisingly brilliant if he weren't so obviously reading it from a bit of paper in front of him. The end, though, is great.
...and that was enough for pro-McCarthyite Jack O'Brian, a TV columnist for Hearst's New York JOURNAL-AMERICAN, to begin attacking Hollenbeck in print, calling him a "Commie pinko", and wondering why CBS would hire someone like HIM. He wouldn't let up- Hollenbeck took it personally (he was already suffering from personal problems); and, three months later, buckled under the strain and committed suicide.
....and agreeing with Ed's stand on McCarthy publicly, at the time, took a tragic toll on CBS reporter Don Hollenbeck; he anchored WCBS-TV's local newscast at 11pm, right after this show aired. He opened his broadcast by saying he agreed with everything Murrow had just said, and that he was never more prouder of him and CBS for taking such a courageous stand...
I never cease to be amazed by how eloquent and lettered this man is. There isnt anyone on television today nearly half as qualified or intelligent as Ed Murrow. We have truly confused entertainment with journalism.
i wish beyond more than anything that my generation was more like the one exposed in this video, an age of intelligence and actually thinking. not always screaming about something if it doesn't benefit themselves, not always going from place to place as fast as possible and thus missing the most important things in life. my age is one of idiocracy
Glenn Beck is a second rate commentator who doesn't have the eductional background of an Edward R. Murrow. In terms of quantity, me may attract a sizeable audience, but in terms of quality, let me just say that I have seen been better broadcasters.
I bet Mr. Murrow would have a lot to say about today's journalism, and that he wouldn't have anything nice to say about it! Wait, you can't even call it "Journalism" today!
Yep, I wasn't born either. My parents were children/teenagers during this era. I love the movie, as well - "Good Night and Good Luck." The trailer gives me chills...
I am not American, have never lived there or even visited, and while sometimes I do feel the sort of impotence and disbelief that often drive foreigners to criticise, even hate, your country, I just need see things like this to remember why America is great.
@Juliaflo Everytime The ghost of McCarthy comes back and haunts us(AKA The Bush Administration and Terrorism),The ghost of Edward R.Murrow will do so also(AKA Keith Olbermann).
@peregrine75 Journalism is the core of us as a species. This is journalism. The Facts. After that: Opinion. I hope God guides anyone who truely seeks the truth.
All empires eventually self destruct Cthulhu and I'm afraid that people seem to think America is somehow immune to that fact of history. Also, its beyond arrogant to suggest that Britian is safe soley because of us. The reason why the world has a negative impression of us is because our ego and inflated sense of self-importance. Not to mention our self rightousness.
@godofattorneys Beyond arrogant? Really? Who maintains standing military forces across Europe both during the Cold War and now? We indirectly subsidize that entire continent's military through our defense of it.
Parts of the world tend to have impressions of us divided strictly along ideological or practical lines. Like really doesn't come into it. We are an obstacle to the rise of China and thus they are wary of us. We protect Taiwan and South Korea and thus they like us.
It's a shame television has come so far that a scene like this would never be aired. Would anyone be able to sit and watch a man reading, even if what he read is the above? Not that it matters. The point of this clip, to me, is that Murrow was a great man capable of great eloquence and bravery, the last of the giants, but that in his greatest moment in the medium that made his name he espoused the responsibility of all men. Watching this makes me want to dedicate my life to public service.
@jonathantu Actually, new readers STILL 'read' the news but off a teleprompter. I know --I've done it! But ---unlike many of today's shills --Murrow wrote all his own stuff. Likewise, I wrote EVERY word I ever broadcast on either radio or TV. And no one told me what to write or say. That is NOT the case today.
Murrow was a stunning example of what journalism should be. His impact on stopping McCarthyism is largely exaggerated: Murrow was only the first reporter on TELEVISION to object to and criticize McCarthy and his methods. Newspapers had been writing on the topic long before Murrow's episode of See It Now. However, Murrow almost single-handedly changed the impact of the medium of television on the general public and started a new wave of journalism that continues to be the most informative.
aaronfehir 13 hours ago
still cracks me up that Ann Coulter fans figured out the interwebs
TheloniousCrunk95 3 days ago
This is run in the ground many times too much for sineter Mccartey and his 1950s wich hunte.His dont proven thing one way or otherr agintst the person accusede them.
sallymaggiespotty 1 week ago
If you look up 'gravitas' in the dictionary, you'll find this guys picture.
MaxwellSDSU 3 weeks ago
The line between investigation and persecution is fine.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty
Accusation is not proof, conviction depends upon due process of law
How can that be regarded as Murrow's personal opinion? Do we not all agree with these principles?
ThePurpleann 3 weeks ago
Okay, so can someone please tell me what he's saying?? I have to watch this video for school... And I am being quizzed on it... Help PLEASE!! Much obliged :)
jessa005 4 weeks ago
Without Edward R. Murrow, there would have been no Walter Crokite, Eric Sevareid, and a second generation pioneering anchor Douglas Edwards. All are gone and the news is all about bad news. Ever since the media turned to bad news, the good news went to CBS News Sunday Morning. Now it's nothing.
AMEwrestling 1 month ago
i find it interesting that we cannot recognize mob mentality as such until after the power of the mob has disperesed.
phantompuck77 1 month ago
I love how he calls McCarthy 'the junior senator from Wisconsin' !!! I love Edward R. Murrow.
docwho97 1 month ago
@docwho97
Why? That is what Sen. McCarthy was.
briefboyz 1 month ago
@briefboyz Because he is obviously mocking him.
docwho97 1 month ago
@docwho97
Yes. As I was you.
briefboyz 1 month ago
@briefboyz You know a line between mocking and insulting is a very fine one.
docwho97 1 month ago
We have the right to destroy this country in the name of elitist international marxists.
wmhoad 2 months ago
An incredibly important moment in 20th century American history,
baroquejen 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this interesting piece of history. Recently I saw the feature movie with David Strathairn playing the part of Murrow and now I see he captured this scene very well.
saigokun 2 months ago
Liberal Media Bias? Someone is still alive that sees Joseph McCarthy as an American Hero? Heaven help us all.
GameSlut 3 months ago 6
@GameSlut That's beside the point. What matter is that he's using his position as a newsman to preach his own opinion. Though most would agree with that opinion today, it's wrong of him to report it as fact
gunsbulletsheroin 3 months ago
Probably the most famous example of Liberal media bias ever.
FuturePrez665 3 months ago
@FuturePrez665 and you're the biggest example of idiocy and ignorance ever, moron
oneirishpoet 1 month ago
A great American.
LiberalIntervention 3 months ago
10 people still support the war in Iraq...
crusader037972 3 months ago
Journalism sure was great before the days of News Corporation and the like.
Ranga33 3 months ago 6
oh god
ConstantCrisis 3 months ago
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Apologiesfor the bad typing... Do you have the entire comentary and Murrows responce to Mccarthy accusations whe he appeared to See it Now
airdaleva42 4 months ago
Do you have the entire commentary and Murrows responce to McCarthys accusation accusation and he appeared in See It Now?
airdaleva42 4 months ago
One of the few times, probably, that the real person sounded better and more articulate than the actor playing him.
bigbala2007 4 months ago
It was ALL McCarthy's fault. Pretty much
skins017 4 months ago
There is no way this didn't wreck your shiz. Tell yo daddy teh page yoself.
chagrin28 4 months ago
I'm a journalism student in my final year. One of our lectures featured bits of Good Night and Good Luck. My first journalism hero was Hunter S. Thompson, but now I've seen the likes of Murrow, Woodward and Bernstein, and Walter Cronkite. Hopefully I become as good a reporter as them.
Essencewing 5 months ago 7
Good Night, and Good Luck. :)
666Shinigamieyes 5 months ago
This man had balls. Like, serious balls. Talking about stuff like this in the 50s was like walking into a grinder. I wish more politicians and journalists had the guts to think like Murrow.
IHateDrumMachines 5 months ago 34
@fibbingcats FYI - I just finished Bob Edwards biography of Murrow and it clearly shows in his speech to the Radio-Television New Directors Association on October 12, 1958 in Chicago that he definitely foresaw what was to become in a broad sense of the medium in which he helped to bring forth. Incredible speech and great read.
br2jyk 6 months ago
We need people like Murrow right now, in this time to deflate the tea heads and fight the conservative machine. We cannot have death with dignity with conservatives calling the shots. We cannot have life with dignity with conservatives calling the shots. They have been ruining this country since the HUAC formed in the fifties and the rot is throughout our government now. Get rid of the rot. Do not vote for a republican, EVER!
onebaud 7 months ago 5
Whenever I see clips of Murrow, I recall as a child sitting next to my father in front of the television and watching him. There has been no one, and I do mean NO ONE, to compare ever since.
warwolfii 8 months ago
SIMPLY
THE
GREATEST
halcyon0830 8 months ago
7 people are idiots.
philcozz 9 months ago
@philcozz I wish only 7 people were idiots!
wlipman 9 months ago
"A nation of sheep beget a government of wolves"- Edward R Murrow
Madhatter24463 9 months ago 4
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highlife231 9 months ago
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Murrow was just another mindless liberal in a long line of mindless liberals that make up the mainstream media. He deserves neither respect or admiration.If he were broadcasting today, thankfully he would be exposed for who he really was since we now have alternate media sources to balance out the liberal bias. In Murrow's day mainstream liberal bias was all the people had for news sources.Murrow's era was truly the Dark Ages of journalism.May it stay forever buried along with him.
fredrickausterlitz 10 months ago
@fredrickausterlitz LMAO You think Murrow was mindless? Turn Glenn Beck off and read something.
acmarietti 9 months ago 2
@acmarietti ahh please don't use LMAO and Murrow in the same sentence!
But yes, I completely agree. If Murrow were alive today, he would be appalled at the state of the news today, and the media's influence (which has completely robbed us of our intelligence and humanity), I don't think he ever imagined how television would affect us as greatly as it has now, and how real time reporting is replaced with five minute expos on britney spears and the murder on 81st st!!
fibbingcats 8 months ago 2
Ed murrow was brill! well i would say that im his great x3 nephew!
Spartanreadyloaded 10 months ago 3
Edward Murrow would have been too intelligent for TV today.
Everything today has been dumbed down to the ground. And getting worse.
Just look at the quality of shows in the 1950's and today. No comparison.
cheeriosinabowl 10 months ago 6
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lennhart 9 months ago
@cheeriosinabowl Dumbing down of the media kicked into high gear with R. Reagan's de-regulation, the trashing of the Fairness Doctrine, the Communications Act of 1934. Naturally, the right wing despised that 'Act'; It prevented them from DOMINATING the media and shutting up opposition. This ilk loves Reagan. He made it all happen for them. Today the ownership of the media is concentrated in the hands of about five or six (if that) huge corporations,
lennhart 9 months ago 4
@lennhart
... true what you said. Not only is our society "dumbed down", it is also "mediocre". People nowadays are mediocre, few people strive for excellence or for the betterment of themselves and society anymore. And as for the media, I don't trust it anymore at all. So slanted, one-sided. I even cancelled my tv cable a few years ago, because tv just sickened me. Trash and a waste of time to watch it. Where would Ed Morrow fit in today???
cheeriosinabowl 9 months ago 2
I read a a lot, and I have been inspired by many people and sayings on liberty (not necessarily democracy, as some people confuse them as being one and the same), and this speech is one of my favourites.
Simple, succinct, and timeless, and though Murrow composed this speech in opposition to Senator McCarthy's methods, it is infinitely pertinent to anyone (and I believe we are all humanly capable of it) who perpetuates a state of fear and unreason.
TheBlackWhirlwind 11 months ago
And all those accused, were found to be paid KGB agents, when the KGB files were opened after the fall of Communism. When you look at how much America has changed since the 1950s, understand that didn't just happen by itself. It was due to the activities of communist subversives, in the education system and media.
AlexanderDina 11 months ago
@AlexanderDina
"And all those accused... KGB agents,"
You have no idea what you're talking about and you're using a tactic of McCarthy's in phrasing it that way.
Some KGB agents and ComIntern files confirmed guilty exceptions that McCarthy stumbled upon, but to say "all" is ridiculous and, I suspect, purposefully exaggerated. The man was paranoid, he accused hundreds of people, to suggest it was accurate is ridiculous. The evidence clearly shows he was sloppy, unprepared and a liar as well.
cjones044 10 months ago
@AlexanderDina Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the arrest and conviction of 0 KGB agents. That's a zero, a null. The REAL KGB agents were laughing themselves sick at the moron from Wisconsin. A moron not unlike yourself.
LordBalto 10 months ago 4
makes me sick about america yoday
muthemasphate 11 months ago 4
@muthemasphate why?
bphutchins 11 months ago
As relevant today as it was so many years ago.
cri8tor 11 months ago 4
Goodnight, and good luck.
bashmyheadin 11 months ago 2
America needs Edward R Murrow
Rovejag 11 months ago 3
With all the Right-wing, Corporate-Sponsored things that are being done today, we truly need an Edward R. Murrow.
scrawnyman01 11 months ago 6
@scrawnyman01
To be honest, this speech is relevant to us all, regardless of political persuasion and the hypothetical, subjective, and ambiguous position on a political spectrum - right/centre/left - fear, paranoia can be spread by anyone for their own cause.
TheBlackWhirlwind 11 months ago 21
It is so sad that now, we still haven't learned anything from this great man. Shame on you Representative King, you have resurrected Senator Joe McCarthy's ghost. Oh how I wish we had more people like Murrow.
devilsadvocate22289 11 months ago 6
March 9, 1954: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode produced by Fred Friendly: "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy"
mkworkman 11 months ago
Wow! What a pimp, eh? I love this guy.
wes23579 11 months ago
great voice :) and a very influencial guy back in the day :) he was so loved
MasterTenblades 1 year ago
I wonder..just wonder what Murrow would say today? Just a thought...
allmine9 1 year ago
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42Zian42 1 year ago
Joe McCarthy's ghost disliked this video
gracebasherguy92 1 year ago
Just substitute Palin or Angle or Tea Party for McCarthy and you can see how far (or how little we've come since 1954. Where is Murrow when we need him now? Where have you gone Keith Olbermann our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
epod34 1 year ago
@epod34 oblermann is no murrow. as much as i hate tea party and glenn beck types, i gotta say that oblermann is just another media pundit who contributes to the divide.
miraeja 1 year ago
"During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: Look now, pay later."
Edward R. Murrow.
Did Murrow have the ability to predict the future of Television? Because what he described is exactly what it has become! Shame!
:(
DorvellTStewart 1 year ago 4
good night and good space!
DoctorScuba 1 year ago
So who's the republican that voted this down?
Hardryv 1 year ago 5
well said murrow
1969420 1 year ago
Back when TV had it's moments now and then. As well did we. What happened to us? When did we become such sniveling weenies? When did TV become a corporate propaganda mouthpiece there to control us rather than inform.
scotty 1 year ago
Thanks for putting a copy of that on youtube.
joshuaoha 1 year ago
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ferretfeathers 1 year ago 2
hi, i was wondering if i could use your video in a class project of mine. please let me know as soon as you can. thank you in advance. :)
gaafar88 1 year ago
@gaafar88:
Have you heard of 'fair use'? You don't have to ask. And it's not his video.
loccysmif 1 year ago
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The old communist sympathizer Murrow, now that America has become the new USSR, it can be said that he has finally defeated tail gunner joe. Wonder what tail gunner would have thought about the new Soviet Airport scanners, legalized torture or the ethnic cleansing of the Muslims in their homelands. (a continuation of the Soviet war of 1979.) McCarthy has been proved right, unfortunately it will also prove the end of the free America that the red promoter Murrow so long sought..
Cedarray 1 year ago
@Cedarray Listen you semi-literate, we know where you live.....
rlibos 1 year ago
@Cedarray Some connections here that really have no credibility nor stand up with any evidence, and riddled with so many fallacies.
Number1Zero 1 year ago
"The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
stargell777 1 year ago
Beautifully articulated, perfectly executed, and dutifully impassioned. This is news reporting at its best.
LaBelleParisienne1 1 year ago 67
@LaBelleParisienne1 So right.
airdaleva42 4 months ago
@LaBelleParisienne1 Absolutely. This is what reporting and journalism is supposed to look like and sound like... those that work today would be well advised to watch tapes of Murrow and study him... again.
mo5178 2 months ago
Who knew Joseph McCarthy's ghost created a youtube account to dislike this video...
AdaHawk89 1 year ago 92
@AdaHawk89 :-)
cornelisvz 1 year ago
Thank you for posting. One of the greatest moments in TV journalism. "This is no time for men who oppose Sen. McCarthy's methods to stay silent."
There are times when a journalist has to take a stand when they see something wrong.
msudreaming 1 year ago 3
@jonathantu I'll say that I agree that Murrow was a great man, but what your talking about is called a teleprompter, it's kind of common these days.
rob129012 1 year ago
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dulcegirlana 1 year ago
What a voice! He seems like an adult compared to our current crop of broadcasters.
stargell777 1 year ago 5
@stargell777 I know! Guys like Keith Olberman and Bill O'Rielly think they're so smart with their big mouths and their ad hominems, today's broadcasters need to get over themselves, set aside political biases, and just tell the news like it is just as Edward did.
Pooleman96 1 year ago
1st amendment...it's a buettiful thing! The execs @ NPR needed to see this before they fired Juan Williams!!!
Peter43John 1 year ago
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Wow, David Strathairn did an excellent job portraying Murrow I should say.
McHunt7 1 year ago
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McHunt7 1 year ago
Unsupervised capitalism and the thought of competition have destroyed this sort of media. America is the best example. They only think about what will sell. And like that wasn't bad enough, the Republicans controll CNN. What sort of democracy do you expect to grow out a situation like this? And the media is CONSTITUTIVE to a democracy. So maybe one should get rid of all the salesmen and get educated people to run the media.
NickeyWhitfield 1 year ago
@NickeyWhitfield
You know, i am beginning to see the plot of a good conspiracy thriller novel brewing out here based on Conservatives' control of Fox News and CNN
TheVoiceOfReason93 1 year ago
the funny thing is you all act this was how all tv stations aired the news
the39thstair 1 year ago
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home".
It was great that we used to actually have journalists in this country. If we had actually listened to them, maybe they would have stuck around a bit longer.
thehoaxbuster 1 year ago
For my Media Criticism class we are to do a book report on "A Slobbering Love Affair" which analyzes how the media was responsible for Obama winning the election. There's a section talking about Keith Olberman and how he fancies himself as the reincarnation of Murrow yet he's no more than an over-zealous loudmouth. I just had to look these two men up after reading that and I must say, Murrow would NEVER tell Bush to "shut the hell up". My, how the news has fallen...
Pooleman96 1 year ago
@Pooleman96 Obama won because America disliked Bush. Keith is a bad example. The worse case is Bill O'Reilly. Bill said "we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up. Americans and, indeed, our allies who actively work against our military once the war is underway will be considered enemies of the state by me. Just fair warning to you, Barbara Streisand, and others who see the world as you." Feb 23, 2003
TheBlackLesbian 1 year ago
@TheBlackLesbian "Obama won because America disliked Bush." That's exactly how I see it myself. After reading the book, I figure he could've simply won by that fact alone. It's just that the liberal media milked him way too much.
Pooleman96 1 year ago
@Pooleman96
Good God, which are you attending, Beck University or Regent University?
frymastermeat 1 year ago
@frymastermeat Adelphi University in Garden City NY, why do you ask?
Pooleman96 1 year ago
@Pooleman96
A media criticism class with a required book that says that Obama only won because of the liberal media and that Olbermann is an over-zealous loudmouth.
It just sounds very conservative. :)
frymastermeat 1 year ago
@frymastermeat Still, you have to admit that today's journalists need to calm down and set political biases aside.
Pooleman96 1 year ago
bwc3821 either has a tremendously wry sense of humor or is a complete moron. I'm assuming the former because no one could actually be that ignorant.
luckyspyguy 1 year ago
When will journalists again grow some??? When???
lovedetective 1 year ago 3
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This man could use a lesson on journalism from Sean Hannity.
bwc3821 1 year ago
@bwc3821 I don't get the irony. There are no great reporters on television today. They're all a slathering mob of fear mongers, half-wits, or dolled up actresses. I have spent a better part of my adult life in newsrooms and I can only shake my head as American journalism sinks into the mire. The only conclusion I have reached as to who is to blame for this is us, the viewers. We have allowed screaming madmen to broadcast their given strain of hate into our homes and ad men to dictate content.
pizzaphotographer 1 year ago
@bwc3821
Sean Hanidy a good journalist? Yeah, and Rush Limbaugh is actually a hardcore Liberal!
DorvellTStewart 1 year ago 3
@bwc3821 Thanks for that. Best laugh I've had all week.
idwerk 1 year ago
We had a similar example in Italy.. it was Enzo Biagi vs Berlusconi with "Il Fatto" a program closed by Berlusconi in 2001.. Enzo Biagi was also fired under committee of Berlusconi with the "Editto Bulgaro".
rafanel81 1 year ago
Clearly this man wants the terrorists to win.
bwc3821 1 year ago
@bwc3821 "sign zees papers saying you ver never tortured and za Fuhrer vill let you go home Americona" - yep he wants them to win - wow you must have been in a coma throughout all your history lessons
Cosmos1138 1 year ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
troglodyte01 1 year ago
....by weeding out at least one known "Communist" from the State Department, and believes Murrow's attack on McCarthy was wrong. This, from the man who STILL believes George W. Bush was a "great president"....
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Yes, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which owns the various Fox movie and TV enterprises (and the NEW YORK POST) is as close to William Randolph Hearst's old media empire as you can get, 'Airsoft'. In fact, 95% of the editorial columnists in the POST are either neo-conservatives or leaning towards the ultra-far right. John Podhoretz, who contributes to the paper while working for the ultra-conservative COMMENTARY magazine, is an unabashed McCarthyite, and believes the Senator did a public service..
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Words of wisdom. "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that acusation is not proof... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
bhattmagandhi 1 year ago
McCarthy was right in the 1940's and the 1950's and McCarthy is still right today in 2010!! The person doing the voice over for this video is 100000% wrong period! McCarthy was a great man indeed! A++++ The left wing and or liberals will always hate America! If you don't like America and if you do don't like Capitalism then you need to move out of America now and move into a communist or a socialist country!
NOBULLSPIN1 1 year ago
@NOBULLSPIN1 What kind of Right Wing Neanderthal Are You ?????I've seen you on here before,You have got to be a troll to even think that any part of that bullshit Facist idiology is right.
Airsoftcleaner 1 year ago
@NOBULLSPIN1 - Having just read your profile I have a word of warning for you; you are so far in the closet you are in danger of ending up in Narnia!
briefboyz 1 year ago
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@NOBULLSPIN1 @bwc3821 "sign zees papers saying you ver never tortured and za Fuhrer vill let you go home Americona" - yep he wants them to win - wow you must have been in a coma throughout all your history lessons
Cosmos1138 1 year ago
@NOBULLSPIN1 You have completely missed the point of this piece-then and now.
casugi 1 year ago
When I saw this in the movie, I never thought it could be as chilling in real life, but so it is.
hypnometal 1 year ago
A great journalist making a great broadcast. I have to admit, I am sort of sorry that he delivered this before the invention of the teleprompter. It would be just that bit more hair-raisingly brilliant if he weren't so obviously reading it from a bit of paper in front of him. The end, though, is great.
lexo30 1 year ago
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Fucking pinko.
HalsRing 1 year ago
...and that was enough for pro-McCarthyite Jack O'Brian, a TV columnist for Hearst's New York JOURNAL-AMERICAN, to begin attacking Hollenbeck in print, calling him a "Commie pinko", and wondering why CBS would hire someone like HIM. He wouldn't let up- Hollenbeck took it personally (he was already suffering from personal problems); and, three months later, buckled under the strain and committed suicide.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines Jack O'Brien most likely would have been working for Fox News today
Airsoftcleaner 1 year ago
....and agreeing with Ed's stand on McCarthy publicly, at the time, took a tragic toll on CBS reporter Don Hollenbeck; he anchored WCBS-TV's local newscast at 11pm, right after this show aired. He opened his broadcast by saying he agreed with everything Murrow had just said, and that he was never more prouder of him and CBS for taking such a courageous stand...
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
What an incredible person. His speech at Gandhi's funeral always makes me wanna cry!
HufflepuffTheGreat 1 year ago
historical
MrBluesy91 1 year ago
I never cease to be amazed by how eloquent and lettered this man is. There isnt anyone on television today nearly half as qualified or intelligent as Ed Murrow. We have truly confused entertainment with journalism.
wilca59 1 year ago
i wish beyond more than anything that my generation was more like the one exposed in this video, an age of intelligence and actually thinking. not always screaming about something if it doesn't benefit themselves, not always going from place to place as fast as possible and thus missing the most important things in life. my age is one of idiocracy
kross621 1 year ago
So classy.
andysmybro 1 year ago 4
Capitalism supporting Communism???
reziztanze 2 years ago
i want to see what he would have to say about glenn beck's stupid fear-mongering ass
fuckaslimjim 2 years ago 5
Glenn Beck is a second rate commentator who doesn't have the eductional background of an Edward R. Murrow. In terms of quantity, me may attract a sizeable audience, but in terms of quality, let me just say that I have seen been better broadcasters.
fatcatsathat 2 years ago
@fatcatsathat Glenn Beck is a Clown!!!!!
Airsoftcleaner 1 year ago 3
I bet Mr. Murrow would have a lot to say about today's journalism, and that he wouldn't have anything nice to say about it! Wait, you can't even call it "Journalism" today!
DorvellTStewart 2 years ago 4
I TOTALLY AGREE! Today's "journalism" is latest celebrity gossip and who is sleeping with who. I appreciate the likes of Murrow and Cronkite.
MsMaestro00 2 years ago 6
So do I, and I wasn't even around when they were doing the news! Having been born in 89 and what not.
DorvellTStewart 2 years ago
Yep, I wasn't born either. My parents were children/teenagers during this era. I love the movie, as well - "Good Night and Good Luck." The trailer gives me chills...
MsMaestro00 2 years ago
I admired the way that Edward R. Murrow exposed Joe McCarthy and dismantled and discredited him to his well deserved fate.
fatcatsathat 2 years ago
The quality of journalism today is seriously lacking in contrast to the days of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
fatcatsathat 2 years ago
You've got that right!
DorvellTStewart 2 years ago
pure character
loopydupe 2 years ago
gives me goosebumps.
harry202020 2 years ago
FOX, CNN, and regular network news should have listened more closely to what the man had to say. To bad its all crap now. Wel,, except BBC America.
Jantv81 2 years ago 2
Good Night and Good Luck
sanch3sj 2 years ago
he's my hero <3
SubRosa999 2 years ago 6
I am not American, have never lived there or even visited, and while sometimes I do feel the sort of impotence and disbelief that often drive foreigners to criticise, even hate, your country, I just need see things like this to remember why America is great.
kroozader 2 years ago 4
Absolute legend. Oh how far television has fallen.
peregrine75 2 years ago 105
@peregrine75 you have to Keith Olbermann....there is still hope
Dontouchmyipod 1 year ago
@peregrine75 We have to watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to see the hypocrisies.
hiphopisdead34 1 year ago
@peregrine75 You could never have said it more accurately. Edward (Eggbert) Roscoe Murrow is the standard of journalistic standard-bearers.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
@Juliaflo Everytime The ghost of McCarthy comes back and haunts us(AKA The Bush Administration and Terrorism),The ghost of Edward R.Murrow will do so also(AKA Keith Olbermann).
Airsoftcleaner 1 year ago
@peregrine75 Journalism is the core of us as a species. This is journalism. The Facts. After that: Opinion. I hope God guides anyone who truely seeks the truth.
cornelisvz 1 year ago
A truly great man in an era of great men...head and shoulders above any equivalent newsman from this 21st century...
cogidubnus1953 2 years ago
Powerful commentary.
Btw, I believe this collection of comments is the most literate I've ever read on YouTube, but that's not too surprising considering the video...
graftonacrylic 2 years ago
This guy is the REAL America we Brits loved ..where did it go?
stephenbiboy 2 years ago 6
@stephenbiboy
You demanded that we form an Empire, and we did. Now you are protected and we are imperial. Long live the Empire.
CthulhuofMu 2 years ago
All empires eventually self destruct Cthulhu and I'm afraid that people seem to think America is somehow immune to that fact of history. Also, its beyond arrogant to suggest that Britian is safe soley because of us. The reason why the world has a negative impression of us is because our ego and inflated sense of self-importance. Not to mention our self rightousness.
godofattorneys 2 years ago
@godofattorneys Beyond arrogant? Really? Who maintains standing military forces across Europe both during the Cold War and now? We indirectly subsidize that entire continent's military through our defense of it.
Parts of the world tend to have impressions of us divided strictly along ideological or practical lines. Like really doesn't come into it. We are an obstacle to the rise of China and thus they are wary of us. We protect Taiwan and South Korea and thus they like us.
CthulhuofMu 1 year ago
@stephenbiboy
It's here still .. just being outshouted by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck.
StephanSandiares 1 year ago
thanks for sharing this with us
poralentierno 2 years ago 5
It's a shame television has come so far that a scene like this would never be aired. Would anyone be able to sit and watch a man reading, even if what he read is the above? Not that it matters. The point of this clip, to me, is that Murrow was a great man capable of great eloquence and bravery, the last of the giants, but that in his greatest moment in the medium that made his name he espoused the responsibility of all men. Watching this makes me want to dedicate my life to public service.
jonathantu 2 years ago 54
@jonathantu Actually, new readers STILL 'read' the news but off a teleprompter. I know --I've done it! But ---unlike many of today's shills --Murrow wrote all his own stuff. Likewise, I wrote EVERY word I ever broadcast on either radio or TV. And no one told me what to write or say. That is NOT the case today.
lennhart 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this onto YouTube. I just saw the movie. I can remember studying Murrow's work in college. He was an admirable man.
eowyn1964 2 years ago