Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Did Clooney or anybody else notice the irony?



I saw Good Night and Good Luck a second time last night, I liked the film immensely as it is well shot, structured evokcative, and reminded me of more "mature" films of late 50s-80s mainstream cinema. However, midway through the film I realised that the only difference between Murrow and cretins like Bill O'Reilly or its Fox cookie cutter counterparts is their political worldview. Murrow's shift from reporting "facts" to subjective editorial soapboxes is what makes current Stateside television news the madhouse that it is today.

Wonder what the late-Murrow, Clooney or Noam Chomsky would say about that.

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