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American Journalism at its Finest

Posted by jfleck on 12 March 2004, 7:22 am

One of the media lists I’m on posted a link yesterday to the transcript of Edward R. Murrow’s March 9, 1954 trashing of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Fifty years out it’s a tour de force, a thoughtful reminder of the dangers of those who intentionally obscure, for political ends, the distinction between dissent and disloyalty.

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