Good Night, And Good Luck

1. Why were CBS executives and its journalists so hesitant about questioning Senator McCarthy?
    They were hesistant because they had to defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and tactics used by McCarthy during his communist times.  


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?
     They used McCarthy's own words and pictures to show the public that even McCarthy's own words wouldn't support what he was trying to convey, in the first story against McCarthy.


3) Describe McCarthy's appearance on Murrow's program. In your opinion, was it positive? Negative?

     His appearance on the program was positive I believe because it showed to America that he was single minded and only focused on making accusations of treason with no evidence behind what he says, America say the true McCarthy.

4) Why did Murrow's schedule get changed on CBS from a nightly program to Sunday afternoons?

      The CBS program got changed to Sunday afternoons because viewer amounts changed.

5) What does Friendly and Murrow refer to as the "downfall of television?"

      It is refered to as the "downfall of television" because television changed from being for educational purposes to being for entertainment and each program wanted to beat the other.


6) What ended up happening to McCarthy?

     In the end McCarthy ended up resigning from being senator .

7) What was Murrow's speech at the beginning and the end of the film about?

       At the beginning he says how history is what we make it, it is his job and the medias to report the information. The television can teach and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it towards those ends.