Tag Archives: Edward R. Murrow

the fifties: looking for a sense of decency

Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s. Some remember it as some sort of Golden Age but the Cold War, the Great Fear and the McCarthy witch hunts mitigate against that assessment… …As people watched stunned and rapt, Senator McCarthy … Continue reading

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citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies

After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading

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