Good Night, and Good Luck.

I just saw the movie Good Night, and Good Luck, which is about Edward R. Murrow's on-air battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy. Although as a movie it was pretty weak, I think the story it tells is very valuable. David Strathaim, the actor who plays Murrow, delivers the lines perfectly and at one part I even started crying because the words were so patriotic and beautiful. I think this stuff is relevant especially at this time, for both journalists and americans.

"We will not walk in fear, of one another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility. As a nation we have come into our ful inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourseleves, and indeed we are, the defenders of reedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

-Edward R Murrow