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Roger, Ebert, I read you: Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

The instrument of [McCarthy's] destruction is Edward R. Murrow, a television journalist above reproach, whose radio broadcasts from London led to a peacetime career as the most famous newsman in the new medium of television. A television journalist with a career in television! This is the kind of sentence construction you might expect to find in a high-school essay which is padding length to make the word count. And let's chose our words with some care, Mr. Ebert. Murrow is the author of McCarthy's destruction; television is the instrument.

He is backed by his producers and reporters, and supported by the leadership of his network.... Except, of course, when he isn't.

Clooney co-stars, as Fred Friendly, Murrow's producer, who remained active into the 1990s. He also directed and co-wrote the movie. Don't let Ebert confuse you: Friendly was active into the 1990s, and Clooney directed and co-wrote. (I'm starting to think Ebert didn't do too well on his SATs.)