Edward R. Murrow - A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

From See It Now, March 9, 1954
Transcript: www.billdownscbs.com/2015/11/...

[@tselyakov]

A masterclass on how to deal with negative groupthink, and character assassination. Class.

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

Well he saw fascist behavior up close and in person in WW2

[@annettebutler5223]

this needs more views; I wish people knew how much this report mattered

[@CameronCajun]

I just learned of it this morning from the podcast, "History Daily" by Wondery (dated 3/09/23, encore publication from 3/09/22). I searched immediately and found it. Thus, I couldn't agree with you more.

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

Matters even more now! We have another McCarthy with a little power and no decency.

[@dudenugget]

Very interesting video

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

@@dudenugget you should take it to heart! This bullshit isn’t repeating, however it is rhyming. Protect you democracy from the demagogues

[@kokolanza7543]

In Daily Life in the United States 1940-1959 (2000, p. 142) Eugenia Kaledin wrote "“A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy” aired on March 9, 1954 without any promotion and no CBS logo. Murrow and Friendly used their own money to advertise the show. This brave exposure, as Stephen Whitfield remarks in The Culture of the Cold War¸ became in retrospect “the most im-portant single show in the history of television.”" Regarding Fred W. Friendly, wikipedia states that he was "a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels."

[@deanhun352]

We need more people like Murrows.

[@bill2953]

W We have Tucker Carlson and afew others but beyond thatl the democrats and their media face weak opposition.

[@barca2324]

McC. and Turd Cruz emit the same carrion stench.

[@UnclePlaysBadly]

McCarthy would be perfect in right-wing media. He reminds me of Rush Limbaugh.

[@Richard-zd8pg]

Where is our new Edward R. Murrow who will expose the current exploiter of our fears? The fault for the success of our latest demagogue is still not within our stars but within ourselves.

[@annalisavajda252]

The public is obligated to improve their critical thinking skills too. If there is no audience for authenticity and intellectual debate that media won't exist...merely lights in a box for the willfully ignorant to amuse themselves with.

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

I agree.

[@user-hb1mw8qg4y]

I think current news reporter should see this. I’m from Wisconsin & McCarthy is a source of embarrassment 75 years later.

[@DorvellTStewart]

Where’s this courage and integrity in today’s media landscape?

[@donnyboy126]

literally everywhwere. look for it and support it!

[@michaelk3267]

It's been lacking for a very long time. Ironically, Murrow was initially part of the problem. As a VP at CBS after WW2, he threw his long-time friend and journalist, William L. Shirer under the bus by replacing him on a CBS show because the corporate sponsor found Shirer to be too liberal. Shirer had warned Murrow at the time that he was emboldening corporate muscle - and other reactionary forces - and setting a dangerous precedent. Shirer warned Murrow that he could face the same fate, which Murrow did several years later.

[@newsshreddertv]

Thanks for posting this. Been looking a king time for it.

[@VardaTruffle]

David Strathairn’s version of Murrow is the apex of biopic film acting.

[@mikehersh6192]

Spot on ❤

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

Nice, sweet, soul pick. Kinda short, but the horns really helped to define this song. Thanks again PD!

[@mikehersh6192]

I like the tape machines. Sony TC 800 B. 🤔🤥

[@shable1436]

Fear is the best weapon

[@GeM-pr8xm]

thank you

[@protonvpn3223]

You can do this with virtually every modern politician, Trump, Biden, etc... too bad their supporters would do and say pretty much anything not to take them at their word. The problem today isn't that there are no Edward R. Murrows left. The problem is that there is nobody left to listen to them.

[@pfflyer3381]

Murdock's hero!

[@mikehersh6192]

He drank himself to DEATH 😂😂WOKE. 😊😊

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

I’m surprised that Tail Gunner Joe didn’t resort to waving pictures around, which existed aplenty, of Ike in Moscow, Ike with Stalin, Zhukov, and numerous other ‘ card - carrying communists ‘ !

[@Orf]

14:30 "This is a document"

[@shable1436]

Sounds familiar

[@CameronCajun]

Immediately upon conclusion of the broadcast, Michael (from "The 70's Show) loudly exclaimed, "BURN!!"

[@Ptrm594]

This is from 1954. The character would have been about six months old, if he had been born at all.

[@CameronCajun]

@@Ptrm594 Ummm.... Thanks for that very necessary clarification. Otherwise, people will think I am simply making a joke. No seriously -- Dude, are you ok? Can I get you something? Or call someone for you?

[@Ptrm594]

@@CameronCajun Yes please, thanks for the kind offer. Can you call Dominos for me please, and order me a pizza ? Actually don't worry about calling them, just order it online... you'll pay right ? Let me know and I'll send you my address

[@Christ0pherWade]

23:18

[@MYLORDGOD]

Now we need the same for Kevin McCarthy

[@deanhun352]

McCarthy's voice here is remarkably like Ted Cruz. In fact he even looks a little like him.

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

He was who he sought to persecute…not a communist, but a fascist.

[@iyaoyasbling6464]

I can feel the left slant in the way they present him.

[@captainjohnh9405]

I wonder what Mr. Murrow would say about the woke movement today.

[@umblapag]

I wonder what he'd say about republican politicians today

[@deanfiora4227]

If you had read Joseph E. Persico's 1988 bio of Murrow, you'd know that he'd be far more disgusted with Fox News and the Trump-led GOP.

[@walterhorne4511]

He would say that people who blame everything on "wokeness" are the natural successors to McCarthyism.

[@Ptrm594]

If Murrow were alive today he'd be castigated by Trumpists as woke himself.

[@Emacee1701]

A dull public affairs program with a small audience. It didn't matter. CBS' PR has been exaggerating its importance and influence for 70 years. Murrow waited until McCarthy had already been discredited and then decided to kick him when he was already down. He only did the show as a favor to Ike. Like Republicans today, Ike and others in the party were unwilling to stand up to McCarthy until McCarthy attacked the army and Ike, a career army man, had enough and asked Paley and Murrow, his buddies in London during the war, to help get McCarthy. Hardly anybody watched. Probably some people started and tuned out getting bored with film clips of McCarthy badly making bad speeches. If anybody deserves credit for bringing down McCarthy, it should Joseph Welch. Murrow was no more than an arrogant, self-righteous, self-promoting propagandist.

[@Ckom-Tunes]

Whatever you think of Murrow you can’t argue with his integrity and presentation. He put up a mirror to McCarthy in a way no one ever had. That few people (may) have watched it live is irrelevant. Had this document not existed many many more petty McCarthy’s would have cropped up in the years after-claiming him to be a misunderstood patriot instead of the lying narcissist he was. It has lived on, giving people an opportunity to look into how corruption can exist, even in the highest institutions.

[@johnchristophersutton9706]

That is only your opinion, murrow was a genius!

[@marioarguello6989]

Murrow The Commie