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I Can't Watch This Without Getting Chills

3/17/2015

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I am about the begin teaching the film Good Night and Good Luck in my Radio/TV class.  It is the important story of Edward R. Murrow and his CBS News team and how they took on Senator Joseph McCarthy.  It also truly paved the way for journalism on television and that whole "freedom of speech" and "freedom of press" thing from the First Amendment (you remember the 1st Amendment right, if not, read up).

The video to your left is the original editorial that Murrow delivered on his show See It Now in March 1954 and it is possibly of the most powerful two minutes of television ever.  

Watch it and tell me you're not impressed.


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