The film Good Night and Good Luck chronicles the fateful battle between Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and See it Now host Edward Murrow. Unlike ancient times, this battle was not fought with weapons and underhanded tactics, but with the use of television and arguments. Edward Murrow recites a speech: Our history will be what we make of it. And if there are historians in fifty or a hundred years, and they keep the kinescopes of the three networks for a week, they will find there, recorded in black and white, or in color, proofs of decadence, of escape and isolation. realities of the world in which we live. I draw your attention to the television times of all networks between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern Time. Here you will find only a fleeting and spasmodic allusion to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. It is true that occasional informative programs are presented in this intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during daily prime time, television mostly isolates us from the realities of the world in which...