George Clooney's Broadway Epic "Good Night & Good Luck" Aired Live on National TV

[Clark Kimble]

Wow....sensationally staged dramatization, with a staggering final two-minute video montage, of the 1954 battles between Sen. Joseph McCarthy's HUAC vs. CBS and Edward R. Murrow, aired live on CNN Saturday evening from the Winter Garden on Broadway, with an informative post-show panel discussion including journalists Bret Stephens; Anderson Cooper; Kara Swisher; Connie Chung; Scott Pelley; Murrow acolyte Marvin Kalb; Abby Phillip; and Walter Isaacson.

Clooney closed the stage show by asking, "What are YOU going to do?" while slowly making eye contact with hundreds in the live audience.

The through line connecting 1954 with 2025 is unmistakable. To quote Peter Allen, "No need to remember when, 'cause everything old is new again."

The show concludes its Broadway run Sunday.

[BarkCampbell]

No profession is more self-congratulatory than journalism. What's worse than journalists thinking that they're the true heroes of society is hollywood regurgitating that narrative time and time again. All The President's Men, Spotlight, Truth, The China Syndrome, Reds, Good Night & Good Luck, etc etc. All bad movies.
Know what's worse than a bad movie? turning said movie into a PLAY.

Clooney's a stooge, begging us to reclaim our allegiance to a profession that doesn't deserve ours.

[MikoTython]

No profession is more self-congratulatory than journalism. What's worse than journalists thinking that they're the true heroes of society is hollywood regurgitating that narrative time and time again. All The President's Men, Spotlight, Truth, The China Syndrome, Reds, Good Night & Good Luck, etc etc. All bad movies.
Know what's worse than a bad movie? turning said movie into a PLAY.

Clooney's a stooge, begging us to reclaim our allegiance to a profession that doesn't deserve ours.

Better the corrupt leading the blind leading the blind, eh ? Now, I'm not putting modern journalism on any kind of a pedestal, because 'access journalism' & partisanship seems to be the coin of the realm of the 'mainstream', but SOME kind of oversight is better than none. That said, there are a lot of small independent outfits - bellingcat, ProPublica, The Center For Public Integrity (CPI), among others - doing their bit.

McCarthy was, indeed, a fraud, and Edward R. Murrow was, indeed, a first-rate journalist. What fault adheres to George Clooney for dramatizing Murrow's speaking truth to power you'd have to explain - probably the stink of his liberal political affiliation, would be my guess. Which is imo utterly irrelevant, other than the entirely laudable impulse to inspire our institutions to stand up against fraud & corruption - what a concept. Don't think I have to draw a picture for where the present situation stands, re: corruption.