Replying to Good Night, and Good Luck

I just saw this movie and now have a completely different view of the media and what it should be. Television news disgusts me (most popular shows anyways), as well as most people who talk about the media, even within the media itself. I hear so much talk about "biased news" these days that it makes me wonder what these people think the word biased means. Apparently, the way it seems reading what some of these kids write, it means anything which takes a side instead of rattling off facts with absolutely no commentary. It's sad that the word "biased", if used with a station, paper, article, etc. automatically condemns it. If the evidence is there, I want to hear the newscaster/writer's opinions, so long as they are based on facts, and the bias does not carry through to every other topic. A responsible news show starts neutral, and remains neutral until there it is a clear that judgements should be made. Of course, the dangerous thing about this is the option of leaving out some evidence against the case. Thus the importance of other news stations and fact checkers. Judgements should never be used which cannot be backed up, and never without showing the audience the other side. It seems with so much talk on here that people want completely unopinionated news, which is respectable. But people complain about news stations using selective clips of politician's speeches and such. There is a station you can find that, it's called CSPAN. Am I saying all reporters should make judgements on everything? No. But I believe some things cannot be left unpunished. After all, that should be the point of investigative journalism. I'm sorry if this is incoherent at all, but watch the movie. They've got it right.

"To be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful."

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. "

-Both Edward Murrow (not said in the movie)