
Good Night, and Good Luck.
In 1935, Ed Murrow
began his career with CBS.
When World War Two broke out...
...his voice brought
the battle of Britain home to us...
...through his "This Is London"
radio series.
He started with us all...
...many of us here tonight,
when television was in its infancy...
...with the news documentary show,
"See It Now".
Segregation, exploitation
of migrant workers...
...apartheid, J. Edgar Hoover...
...not the least of which, his historical
fight with Senator McCarthy.
He is the host of our enormously
popular show "Person to Person"...
...and tonight he is here
with his son, Casey...
...wife, Janet, and all of you
who he's worked with...
...inspired, lectured, and taught.
Ladies and gentlemen...
...the Radio-Television News Directors'
Association and Foundation welcomes...
...Mr. Edward R. Murrow.
This might just do nobody any good.
At the end of this discourse
a few people may accuse this reporter...
...of fouling
his own comfortable nest...
...and your organization may be
accused of having given hospitality...
...to heretical
and even dangerous ideas.
But the elaborate structure
of networks...
...advertising agencies, and sponsors
will not be shaken or altered.
It is my desire, if not my duty,
to try to talk to you journeymen...
...with some candor about what
is happening to radio and television.
And if what I say is responsible...
...I alone am responsible
for the saying of it.
Our history will be
what we make of it.
And if there are any historians
about 50 or 100 years from now...
...and there should be preserved...
...the kinescopes of one week
of all three networks...
...they will there find recorded
in black and white, and in color...
...evidence of decadence,
escapism...
...and insulation from the realities
of the world in which we live.
We are currently wealthy, fat,
comfortable, and complacent.
We have a built-in allergy to
unpleasant or disturbing information.
But unless we get up off
our fat surpluses...
...and recognize
that television in the main...
...is being used to distract, delude,
amuse, and insulate us...
...then television
...those who look at it
and those who work at it...
...may see a totally
different picture too late.
Millie! Just the person
I wanted to see! Come here!
This goes at the top
of the Roy Campanella piece.
Yes! Give me a half an hour.
I may need it
- Can I get some coffee first?
- Come on! Get me some coffee!
Morning, Johnny!
I have some new notes that go
with the Tito footage for Fred.
Fred's gonna be in
in an hour.
I already put them on his desk.
Can you just make sure that...
...he doesn't look at the film
until he reads the notes?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
Hey, Joe! Shirley!
- What's going on in here?
- What do you mean?
Two attractive people
alone in the copy room!
Don't tell Paley, he'll fire me.
He'll fire both of us, Shirley.
- Rules are made to be broken!
- You can afford to say that.
Let me see this.
- To CBS? - And to America.
You promise to be a loyal American?
I know. All of the reporters
have signed this.
Who are you promising this to?
CBS?
Fred signed it.
Murrow signed it.
- Yeah.
Are you now
or have you ever been...
I thought it was a joke,
but there's a lot of pressure.
...on the Attorney General's list
of subversive groups?
- I don't know.
What is it really saying? Is it a civil
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