“It could well do good” is a first line from Chancy for a play.
Or maybe not too much to this, when the man who delivers is George Clooney, and the man he depicts is Edward R. Murrow. It is, after all, Broadway, where brilliant half-gods of the left are loved.
However, Clooney has never appeared before on his steps – “So … to complete,” he wrote in his biography.
The fact that Murrow defeated him in this regard, having appeared as a character in a musical entitled “Senator Joe”, is not surprising. He was, after all, a world -renowned journalist whose first name could just as well have been “crossed”. While “good night and good luck”, for which he met, in a speech to the directors of news, is a complete rethink of television, which by choosing to “distract, illusion, amuse and insulating” is to make Americans “big, comfortable and complacent”.
It was in 1958. Looking at the decrease in the state of television information today, it should be concluded that he was right: his speech has no good.
But his journalism is another story, and it is the only “good night and good luck”, which opened Thursday at Winter Garden, means. To do this, he quickly returned in 1953 and in CBS studio 41, where Murrow and his producer, Fred W. Friendly, directed the little empire that creates News magazine “see now”. They are about to embark on a series of programs designed to unmask, and thus destroy, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the communist shooting demagogue. Surprisingly, they succeed.
