Monday, April 6, 2015

Good Night and Good Luck

Please answer the following questions


1) Why were CBS executives and its journalists so hesitant about questioning Senator McCarthy?
2) What method did Murrow and the other journalists use in the first story against McCarthy? Why did they choose this way to tell their story?
3) Describe McCarthy's appearance on Murrow's program. In your opinion, was it positive? Negative?
4) Why did Murrow's schedule get changed on CBS from a nightly program to Sunday afternoons?
5) What does Friendly and Murrow refer to as the "downfall of television?"
6) What ended up happening to McCarthy?
7) What was Murrow's speech at the beginning and the end of the film about?

Please post your blogs NO LATER THAN FRIDAY APRIL 10TH.


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