Thursday 8 October 2009

Good Night and Good Luck

In our long way to enlightment, aspiring journalists like me are taught in many different ways during lectures, seminars, workshops and film sessions. Each week students are shown a different film dealing with some aspects or figures of journalism. Good Night and Good Luck was the subject of the first screening, last week. It is an intelligent and sharp film, set in the U.S. during the 40s and 50s, when the fear of communism was spreading and the government conducting its battle against it with all the weapons available, willing to defeat it at any cost (often stepping over human rights and freedom). In such a tense situation, TV-journalists Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly have their own clear ideas about their job as providers of information, and denounced several cases where American citizens were accused of having links with "the commies" and punished without any evidence. The film is a true story and deals with major issues such as freedom of expression, morality, censorship, ethics. Watch it, it's money!

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