In class we watched the film Good Night Good Luck, directed by George Clooney. Its a an entertaining film about politics and the journalist's job of reporting the news no matter the cost. The main character Edward R Murrow displays attributes of courage and principle in investigative reporting. In the plot he outs a corrupt Senator McCarthy, who basically went around spreading the hysteria of communism and falsely accusing people of being members of that party.This senator actually went around disrupting peoples lives and Edward R Murrow saw the injustice in that and decided to give the people the side that no one would report on. With the permission of the network CBS, he exposed the American public to a free press and reported the truth and the favorable side of the Senator.
The film really gives you an inside look on investigative reporting and how they have a big role in informing the public of every side and actually living up to their title of the "watch dog".
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