‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck is as riveting as it is timely. This Oscar-nominated film dramatizes the real-life battle between broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy in the mid-1950s, when McCarthy attempted to root out Communist dissenters in Washington. When Murrow publicly denounces the senator’s crusade on air, he finds himself a target of McCarthy and his camp, who will stop at nothing to bring him down. Good Night, and Good Luck was released in 2005, but almost 15 years later, Clooney’s drama is still incredibly relevant to our present-day debate about the responsibility of the media and the complexities of free speech.