The play clearly sets out to lionize Murrow for his role in confronting Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist Red Scare crusade, which one has to believe that the Democratic Clooney sees as ...

He was an opponent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and there was some suspicion that a comment from McCarthy also vaguely referred to his son's conduct.

He was an opponent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and there was some suspicion that a comment from McCarthy also vaguely referred to his son’s conduct.

The sign shown in the cartoon topping this post is the actual signage now appearing in National Parks that reads like it could have been written by Senator Joe McCarthy.

Whereas Murrow boldly exposed Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s deceit with factual rigor and moral clarity, today’s legacy media — framed as the “good guys” in Stelter’s morality play — worked ...

Arguably the most famous newsman of his time, the prominent broadcast journalist challenged Sen. Joseph McCarthy over his abuse of power and fear-mongering tactics at a time when many Americans ...

OPINION Terry Moran is the latest casualty in Trump’s war on the media Moran’s termination sends a chilling message about the instinct of corporate media to side with power.

The film tells the story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow's mission to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy. Clooney and Grant Heslov, who originally wrote the film, teamed up to adapt the ...

It tells the story of the 1950s Red Scare and the media’s opposition to Sen. Joe McCarthy. Good Night, and Good Luck, adapted from the 2005 film of the same name, was recently simulcast live on ...

A true Mainer, old-time Republican, and friend of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Skowhegan, Maine — among the first to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy back in 1950 — my father told me it ...

Those 1954 U.S. Senate committee hearings pitted Red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy against the U.S. Army and critics of McCarthy’s scorched-earth tactics in branding opponents as communist ...