{"id":39258,"date":"2013-10-20T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/good-night-and-good-luck.html"},"modified":"2013-10-20T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T05:28:20","slug":"good-night-and-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/good-night-and-good-luck.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, and Good Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fine film, and, here, a fine recollection of it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

It's dangerous to tell the truth today in journalism. \u00a0It creates controversy. It draws criticism. It offends. \u00a0It might even lead to sponsors (directly offended or answering their offended consumers) complaining or leaving. \u00a0It might cost the parent mega-corporation money.<\/p>\n

That's true for journalism leaning Left or Right. \u00a0The contrast is not between ideologies, but between "chaos" and "law," being willing to speak unpopular things vs being a journalist to "entertain, amuse and insulate". \u00a0<\/p>\n

Controversy is uncomfortable, disruptive, aggravating — but it provides a way to discuss and discern the truth. Saying only what's popular and comfortable (at large or within a given target demographic) is not just cowardly, but corrosive. \u00a0If the Fourth Estate as a whole or in particular is unwilling to go beyond their corporate owners' demographic targets, whatever ideology that is (or shapes), then they are as much at fault as as is their audience\u00a0which does not seek illumination, but comfort.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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Lance Mannion: Good Night, and Good Luck and the lost legacy of Murrow\u2019s Boys and Girls<\/a>
\n The Mannion boys didn\u2019t know anything about Murrow\u2019s Boys when they requested Good Night, and Good Luck for family movie night last week. They\u2019re both fascinated by history and they knew about Joe McCarthy and liked the idea he was finally brought down by a team of courageous journalists. But they\u2019d never heard of those journalists. They didn\u2019t know about Ed Murrow. They didn\u2019t know about Murrow\u2019s Boys. They didn\u2019t know about CBS News, for that m…\n <\/p>\n

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A fine film, and, here, a fine recollection of it. \u00a0 It's dangerous to tell the truth today in journalism. \u00a0It creates controversy. It draws criticism. It offends. \u00a0It might even lead to sponsors (directly offended or answering their offended consumers) complaining or leaving. \u00a0It might cost the parent mega-corporation money. 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