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Article: Murrow vs. McCarthy; Clooney's 'Good Night' anchored in 'golden age'.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2005
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Liberals look back on the 1950s and '60s as a golden age of journalism. This is no doubt because there was a lot less journalism.
"Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's earnest new movie about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's clash with red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy, oozes nostalgia for a simpler time, when there was no cable television, when Walter Cronkite was the "Most Trusted Man in America," when everyone agreed about what was and was not news.
Everyone, that is, except those who were outside the coterie of progressive elites who ran the major newspapers, gave out all the important ...