The Conversation U.S.70 years after Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, it’s time to give more credit to other journalists.
Although the program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour” and is good work, it wasn’t the first of its kind.
It’s a media myth that McCarthy’s power was unchecked until Murrow aired his report, and overlooks the aggressive work of journalists who took on the senator for years before.
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