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Civil liberties set aside for security reasons. Journalists afraid to report in ways that might be considered “un-American.” Television networks more concerned with the bottom line than their responsibilities to use the medium to inform and educate. Sound familiar?
Go back fifty years and all these issues were at play in the coverage of the Cold War search for Communism as manifested in McCarthyism.
The early 1950s were a time of great turmoil as America worried about the infiltration of Communists in our government. The threat was real. Senator Joe McCarthy took advantage of that threat to rise to power. He claimed to have lists of “card carrying” Communists in government positions. His tactic was to slander and smear people with hearsay, innuendo and intimidation. To oppose him was to become the target of his attack and to be labeled as a Communist or Communist sympathizer, and as such, un-American.
Imagine a time when those who voiced public dissent about U.S. policies were criticized as being disloyal. Or when others who had remote ties to suspicious foreign groups were viewed as guilty by association.
The parallels to the contemporary debate about responses to possible terrorist threats are immediately evident in viewing one of the best films so far this year. Good Night, and Good Luck, which draws its name from the signature signoff of CBS-TV journalist Edward R. Murrow, focuses on another time of fear.
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