Good Night, And Good Luck

[misterfairbanks]

Its disgusting that YouTube is being Censored the way it is.

Its becoming harder and harder to share videos that hold valuable information.

Spread the word!!



[LadyJane2876]

Omg, I use thus quote all the time! So simple yet very clever

[griftang]

holy epic irony with the danny whoever sent me here.

perhaps its more ironic that ive never heard of him, but i think not.

Good luck, indeed.

[DickFromAccounting]

half you people being sent from Danny Jones can't even string together a properly-spelled sentence. You're watching this video and merely proving Murrow's point. 

[DannyDougielover123]

Danny jones sent me here <3

[WhatsUpTszwing]

Danny sed me here<3

[Catherine10fy]

danny JONES ! ahhahaha ;D

[nataliamo12]

DANNY JONES :D

[aamy281]

danny jones send me here :D

[hiitssree829]

Thumbs up if Danny Jones brought you here! :)

[mphurwitz]

The good ol' day of journalistic integrity. Diminishing standard of journalism are becoming frightfully prevalent in even the most prestigious of news outlets...which is why I've changed my major from print journalism-which won't even exist by the time I graduate-to PR. A sad day indeed. Cop-out? Perhaps.

[niallnoon]

@mphurwitz No perhaps about it, we need people who understand the importance of impartial, well prepared and researched journalism. Keep an eye on getting back into the trade, it may move more and more online but it's no less worthwhile

[daveibukun]

How right he was. Its so sad what our society has become.

[hescool666]

top bloke, but goddamn this movie was boring

[roadrunner7000]

This man had balls

[ladycfalcon]

Profoundly powerful and prophetic speech!

[fluffydanny]

Dedicated to WikiLeaks.

[acmarietti]

@fluffydanny Murrow had journalistic integrity. Please don't mention Wikileaks as if it's a sliver of what Murrow was. Wikileaks is exactly what is wrong with the Internet generation, it's just a spew of nonsense meant to be news that inundated everyone it could. What exactly is the journalistic benefit of publishing what one ambassador had to say about another behind his back?

[fluffydanny]

@acmarietti What do you mean,"nonsense"? Wikileaks is journalism.

[acmarietti]

@fluffydanny Just like US Weekly is journalism.

[fluffydanny]

@acmarietti No,just like USA Today.

[brav0wing]

In Hungary, the prime minister is now proposing a law that will reduce freedom of speech considerably by hitting the press. In Romania, the president put the press under the national security act while at the same most of the media is now under his control! Both countries are members of the EU!

[legendaryawesomedude]

@brav0wing yes but hungarian's journalists are protected by eu directives ;) i studied law so i know that : a eu law is always above a national law, it would be like california making a law saying weed, but washington could overthrouw the decision whenever they want ;) (in eu case it is Brussels)

signed : EU law student

[brav0wing]

@legendaryawesomedude He, he! I knew about that, but trust me, nothing will happen! Anyhow, the hungarian gov made the law in such a way that the could circumvent it! Plus they will have the EU presidency! You think that they made it without knowing the EU legislation? Everything is good on paper!

[brav0wing]

8 people support McCarthyism policies!

[fluffydanny]

remmber,the delete button only removes it from your screen. The message is always out there in cyberspace.

[ivanx7]

this is the shittest movie out, makes me fall asleep so stupid and pointless

[brav0wing]

@ivanx7 Stupid and pointless are you my friend. There are still countries where people are accused of things without proof and where the media is used just for entertainment. There are countries in EU that limit the freedom of press (there is a law proposed in Hungary where blogs are to be controlled and if necessary blocked if it threatens the government).

[fluffydanny]

to wiki.

[fluffydanny]

Google free speech.

[zsoleilz]

2:23-2:28

[zsoleilz]

2:23-2:28

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

I am surprised to see this comments page did not had a single rant from Right Wing Conservative f***ers who usually thinks, to this day, of Ed Murrow as a leftist liberal scumbag

[qboxer]

@TheVoiceOfReason93 I'm conservative. I think Edward R Murrow was the greatest journalist in modern history - at least.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@qboxer

Good - but if you say that in America nowadays you might be branded by Tea Partiers as a RINO.

[qboxer]

@TheVoiceOfReason93 Maybe. I don't really care, and I'm Canadian in any case.

[tdirtyatl]

When I see how low journalistic standards have fallen from Murrow's height, I want to weep.

[G3aR04]

@tdirtyatl It is not journalist standards that have fallen, it is the people's want for quality that has fallen. Conversely, if you want quality you need only do a search on the internet to find it. You have been given the opportunity to use the greatest machine of dissemination for the information you seek. If you want it, go find it.

[fluffydanny]

Go for it

[thehoaxbuster]

I <3 Eisenhower!

[dgomedia]

If you're a David Strathairn fan check out the film "Racing Daylight" It's available on Netflix.

[Frankenstrat247]

Genius film. Major respect for Clooney for pulling this movie off so well.

[inzanethingz]

wadda pile o'shit movie

Clooney's wet drem !

[fluffydanny]

Feel like I'm fixing todie.

[fluffydanny]

great power does not me anything to me. The people givth and the people takth away.

[fluffydanny]

2009

[fluffydanny]

They are talking about TV. I use this video in reference to the internet.

[Analogcolor]

The public does not control Television as it does the internet. People also have more choice where they go on the internet. There are PLENTY of worthy sources on the internet and it is not censored like television. This speech applies to television even more now than during the era of this film.

[chenzii]

@Analogcolor

/agree

[annienomadepoet]

On hearing the sad news that Walter Cronkite had passed on and after having watched several hours of footage honoring Walter's service and career -"Good Night, And Good Luck" was the movie I chose to watch to celebrate the craft of journalism. Every time I find myself talking back to cable news, I pop GNAGL into the dvd player and remind myself that it only takes one person (and a crack production team) to turn things around.

[fluffydanny]

This is my signuture video

[danaklisanin]

This is an excellent example of "Evolutionary Guidance Media," (EGM).

[SuperRod88]

TV sometimes it is a box with lights because we don't have another Edward R. Murrow to point the world's failures. We need more people like him and we need more corageous films like this. Wonderful work by Mr. David Strathairn and George Clooney. Good Night, and Good Luck!

[BLACKIESBOY]

Bravisimo!

[mientrasescribimos]

Buenas noches y buena suerte.

[Zik2]

people like Joseph McCarthy. The freedom speech in today's USA, the fact mr. Bush could be critizated without fear (the example could be Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore) shows the men from the CBS won their fight. Good work, guys.

[Zik2]

What an amazing movie! Political cases in the USA weren't as horrible as the Soviet ones, but there were some and many innocent people were sentenced. And for example Rosenbergs were sentenced to death.

Americans won the cold war and helped to destroy communistic tyranies in many countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including my country, Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic. But, people forget Americans didn't fight just the communists outside, they also had to fight inside, fight

[dance2910]

could someone explain this film to me in simple words, i want to get an idea about it before i watch

[anujm89]

hey dance2910, the film is about how Edward Murrow and his team of fellow reporters stood up and questioned the blatant acts of prosecution etc, which the then Senator McCarthy carried out against many Americans, who he 'thought' had sympathies for the Communists. Most of these people were innocent. The film tells about the media's role as a watchdog and guardian of basic rights in society. Watch it for the performance by David Strathairn as Murrow. Brilliant!!

[michellybaby]

damn love david strathairn, awesome film :3:3:3 loved it so much XD

[000266617]

"The only way to get rid of the problems of fast food is to destroy the corporations producing it" Now your talkin my kinda talk!! Extreme problems cause for extreme measures it that how it goes? Prohitibion of fast food.

[archeeizm]

fast food is a problem??

[000266617]

If we have to, we can consider the Ludovico technique for all those who love fast food.

[ilovetogofast88]

What is the Ludovico technique and what makes you think it would work?

[000266617]

the Ludovico techique is a type of aversion therapy . It should make a person violently sick , vomiting at the sight of fast food.

(I guess aversion therapy under other names should do the trick.)

[ilovetogofast88]

Good Lord!! That is absolutely BARBARIC!! I'm sorry, but there has got to be a safer method to fast food alternatives, that Ludovico technique just doesn't sound like it will work.

[000266617]

Aversion therapy has been used with sucess since 1932 to treat alchol and drug problems. And since people are addicted to fast food and their health in jeopardy, well, it's an option when the person weighs over 1000 pounds.

[karateboy159]

of course we do its fast

[007Zoodle]

Because the last Prohibition worked so well *rolls eyes*

[wonderbread93]

Stfu about smoking people. If people want to smoke it's their choice, and what teenagers/children are going to watch this film in the first place?

[Thunderjake101]

Heh, I guess I'm one teenager that will watch this...

[wonderbread93]

Yeah me too, I feel like the only one around that even gives a shit about this kind of thing.

[lovepiecethiopia]

me too.

[fmafan999]

same here..looks like a great movie.

[zenmaster72]

well most high school video technology classes watch this film...

[wonderbread93]

Still, I don't think it would influence them at all...

[greengoblin72]

hahaha evidence doesnt seem to be in your favor does it?

[BlackStallion777]

you fucking idiot. there are hundreds of teenagers who would watch this. Not everyone's as fucking ignorant as yo u.

[wonderbread93]

Because "hundreds" is a HUGE number.

[BlackStallion777]

I was understating greatly, you prick.

[xXcookiex1]

AGREE.

[vasco1492]

Murrow is one of the greatest Americans ever.

[vasco1492]

One of my top 10 fav. movies. Lumet's Network is top on the list.

[Fabrazz]

Why are you talking about smoking here? This is an amazing speech, speaking only the truth about the television and you guys are talking about smoke?

Oh and to finaly finish this, yes, smoking was very common in the 50s because the effects were indeed not so known. You were able to smoke in planes etc. because it was ok back then. Now a days it is different, but a smoker is nothing but a human as well. Everybody is addicted to something, mere fact.

Good Night and Good Luck...

[RichardSwayne]

For someone who hated communism, McCarthy acted allot like Stalin.

[Jzan4]

edward murrow is my hero. what an awesome guy! i would have loved to have met him and have heard him on his radio show on CBS. rock on!

VOTE FOR OBAMA!

[Claytrainor]

Obama = CFR / NWO

there is no difference between Mccain and Obama... the election is already over.

I beg you to research this.

watch?v=jovq9j8cJSc

[tarageek]

Amazing speach, somthing to always keep in our minds.

[000266617]

Let me say that they are more sneaky with cigerette advertising in movies today. In the past, there was constant outright smoking by big stars. Although I haven't seen smoking in the movies I go to, in films that do have smoking, I don't believe its done the same way as in the past.

[thefrostflyer]

This country was sold in 1913 when corrupt and ignorant politicians passed the Federal Reserve act. There is only one way to PEACE and that would be to abolish the Federal Reserve. The top investors in the Federal Reserve own the military industrial complex and most of the Media in this country. The media is used to form public opinion and foreign policy.

We cannot wage war with them but we can destroy their most powerful weapon all we have to do is turn it off.

watch money masters

[ProfessorBeautiful]

What is tragic is that none of the media-anointed presidential candidates today has the guts to express the Eisenhower reverence for habeas corpus. Why isn't he adopted by democrats, for his advances in civil rights and warnings on the military-industrial complex, and above all defense of individual rights against government abuse. This republican president is too left-wing for the democratic party of 2008.

[pokerschool1]

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[InspectorFoyle]

In retrospect, this video is only a small treat in a extremely enjoyable film, which shows how paranoia can cause panic and blind peoples "lets think this over first" brain flash. In response to Mastercheif1133, if they are still on youtube, have you ever had the power o drop Nukes during a war? Think about what must have been running through his mind, whether to use them or not in the Cold War. With the tense global situation, he had to wrestle with that.

[indiebot]

A rhetorical genius.

[000266617]

One thing from this film that would be deleted or toned down today in this film is the smoking. People don't puff on cigerettes anymore on TV and in movies. Who smoked in "Oceans 11"? Today, smoking is considered drug use and to some people, it would be as if Murrow was constantly smoking crack. People have been fired for smoking. A different time period. It's unacceptable today.

[Nickyhighpockets]

Good Night and Good Luck was made in 2006.

[DeaThShiNoBi69]

@000266617:

You have to realize that this film is supposed to take place in the 1950s, where smoking was considered normal. It also portrays Edward R. Murrow as a smoker because in reality, he typically smoked 60-65 cigarettes per day and died from lung cancer, which he developed from smoking. While I agree that people shouldn't smoke, I definitely wouldn't say it's "unacceptable."

[000266617]

DeatHShiiNoBi69, you are saying the same thing I am is what it seems. I am saying they don't push cigerettes on TV and movies as they once constantly did. I am not speaking about cigerette smoking, but cigerette advertising only. Once it was okay to adverise smoking constantly. Today I can't recall seeing anyone smoke in movies.

[ddaannyy00]

True there arent any smoking comercials nowadays. But theres still lots of smoking in movies what are you o.

[000266617]

In the films I have seen, "Oceans 11" "Indiana Jones flims" "Colateral" and many other top grossing films, nobody pushed cigerettes or lit up, as I recall. I said "I can't recall seeing anyone smoke in movies" and did not swear no smoking goes on. What movies have a lot of smoking?

[tribefan011]

Thank You for Smoking. It's a great movie, you should watch it.

[olivemike81]

I'm pretty sure someone smoked in at least one of the Indiana Jones movies. Not that that is a bad thing.

[000266617]

I wouldn't call smoking in a movie a good thing. There is no reason to , but reasons to call it bad.

[olivemike81]

Smoking in movies isn't good or bad. It's a fact of life that people smoke [in the 50's, everyone smoked] so it's just art immitating life. People need to stop blaming movies for making people smoke. If your dumb enough to light up, because you saw it in some movie, than you desserve to waste your money on cigarettes.

[000266617]

Advertisers have paid a lot of money to put cigerettes in movies. They are commericials.

[olivemike81]

Well drinking soda and eating McDonalds is bad for you too, yet no one complains about seeing someone eat fast food in a movie.

[000266617]

See the move "Super Size Me" "Fast Food Nation" and obesity reports in the news and others who attack fast food. I would say that fast food is smoking full of addictive fat and salt.

[olivemike81]

My point was people don't complain when they see fast food in a movie. A documentary specifically about fast food is a different story. But what's your point? Are you saying they should ban smoking from movies?

[000266617]

I was saying the fast food would be if not as bad, then nearly. If someone would eat fast food or smoke, then like cocaine sniffing, the movie should get an R. "This film contains scenes of consumption of addictive, unhealthy, fattening and artery clogging foodstuffs."

[olivemike81]

Someone eating McDonalds does not warrant an R rating by itself.

[000266617]

They'll just have to change the rating systems.

[HB2GraphitePencil]

Oh wow, 000266617, that is just about the dumbest thing I have ever heard. My hat's off to you. The only way to get rid of the problems of fast food is to destroy the corporations producing it, censoring it from the eyes of children will not change anything. Such an act as that would never be passed though, so I suppose that your ridiculous extremist view doesn't matter. But honestly, that is an amazingly ignorant idea.

[annaisjesus]

There is a reason for the smoking in this movie. It places the film into the era of the 50s. Back then it was fashionable to smoke, and no one was aware of its effects.

[000266617]

Everything you said I agree with except one thing--that "no one was aware of its effects"

[pleshburger]

unfortunately I live in a country (austria), where smoking still is socially acceptable and considered as normal. anywhere I go I'm confronted with cigarettes. Big difference from the us.

[000266617]

I never got into the issue of second hand smoke, or smoking. I was only referring to advertising (see the Flintstones cartoon, Dick Van Dyke and others where they pushed the brand name.) Not done that way anymore)In the movies of the past, smoking scenes were more constant than today, I belive and they aren't done in the same style)

[WRWidg2003]

be sure of what you say,

[wainscoat]

Oh yeah, I forgot, for the record: Dwight Eisenhower is the greatest American president ever. A great Texan, a great American.

[Mastercheif1133]

No, he was a homicidal presidant. He wanted to use NUKES on china during the Korean war. I remind you of the excessively harmful effects of this weapon of truely horrific destruction. If you have any respect for your fellow man, you will retract your statement.

[rookandpawn]

i thought it was douglas macarthur who had that idea.

[Jobided15]

i think it was actually MacArthur who wanted to nuke china, as well as the soviet union. eisenhower did not take this proposal seriously, but he got the bad rap for MacArthur's intention to do so. Eisenhower, remember, railed against the "military-industrial complex." he was the first to coin that term. Mcarthy would be salivating at his speeches during the final days of his presidency. Eisenhower was a divided man, i don't think he was the greatest president, but he was far from the worst.

[Mastercheif1133]

thank you for correcting me

[brmptx12]

Ronald Reagan ended what single handedly could have ended the world without firing a single shot.

[PiobMhor]

Ronald Reagan did not end anything. Soviet Russia was at its end financially because if the arms race, that is why Gorbachev wanted Glasnost and Perestroika. Gorbachev knew the Soviet State would collapse soon. Of course Mr.Oppertunist Reagan makes it look like his superior diplomatic skills brought the downfall of communism. Read up history before spewing patriotic nonsense like that.

[dnajunk]

I am a historian, and you are misguided. I am no fan of Reagan, but he raced the Soviet Union into bakruptcy; Star Wars is a great example. How did he do it? Loans kept us afloat, and now China owns the mortage on the house. Reagan played a great role in the downfall of the Soviet Union, and in turn cost us our independence.

[m64h]

I keep hearing how Ronald Reagan "ended" communism . . . if he did, then why are there still five nations in the world that are communist - and we openly trade with three of them?

[SqueekDaBeast]

because those nations aren't really that communist anymore, they are just a mask of what they used to be under the Soviet-American Era.

[wainscoat]

A brilliant movie about alienation. The R. Murrow speech at the end is propably the most powerful speech ever in a movie. Somewhere, someplace, there is always a group of people who lives separated from the society. This movie shows perfectly what alienation does to people.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.

[bartolemeo]

Thank you for leaving in President Eisenhower's speech excerpt as well. Powerful words.

[bartolemeo]

Rather prophetic that Murrow would mention a Sunday night study of our foreign policy in the Middle East. Thank you for a great post, and a speech we need to never forget. A wonderful film overall.

[Duskdancer]

David Strathairn is brilliant.

[nezraal]

good job ! murrow owns !

[Yellowskye]

Edward R. Murrow is my hero!

[normski71]

Edward R. Murrow.... no one's got balls like him.

[andiweaves]

http://www.david-strathairn.co­m/

[runner4peace]

David strathairn rocks!!!!

[lalalalololo]

Qué grande eres, David !