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June 2025
Fifty + Years On, the Questions Remain
June 8, 2025
With last night's CNN broadcast of the Broadway theater production about Edward R. Murrow titled "Good Night, and Good Luck", today is a good day to revisit a Murrow 1958 speech of warning, a critical look at the networks and news industry. The speech came to be known as "Wires and Lights in a Box" and now, as we look around, we have to ask -- even as the era of Joseph McCarthy has faded in history, has the McCarthy era that Murrow stood to bravely warn against, truly gone away?
Visit the Murrow Speech on YouTube
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhy0T7Q48Y
Here is a Salon article that touches on George Clooney and the timeliness, and success, of the theatrical production.
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