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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.

• https://slate.com/culture/2025/06/george-clooney-broadway-good-night-good-luck-cnn-tonys.html

Image via the LA Times