The Cold War on TV: Joseph McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow | Retro Report
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- During the Cold War, Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade became a media sensation. But he met his match in reporter Edward R. Murrow who was sharply critical of him. Lesson plan for educators: bit.ly/RR-mccarthyism
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." ~ Edward Murrow
The George Clooney film 'Good Night and Good Luck' was a good portrayal of this historic moment in American politics.
Thank you, I'd never heard of the film before your comment but looked it up and it looks absolutely worth watching, which I'm now going to do!
I'm fond of that film too it was filmed in Toronto I knew an extra in it saw it in the theatre but it's really about freedom of the press not just McCarthy the speech about just lights in a box entertainment is relevant still now with internet devices as it was with TV and how there should be standards and quality journalism not just mindless propaganda.
Thank you Edward Murrow.
communism has spread, conservatives were right
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Hi from the US!
Loving the series.
You people are amazing.
Thank you! make sure to tell any friends that teach middle and high school about our Cold War series czcams.com/play/PLKB8zkQFlMyKRemityNLCvkqtZhoAUxzt.html
This is a great piece. What I find extremely concerning is that while Murrow was eventually able to take down McCarthy by pointing out all the flaws in his ideology/methods/etc., many journalists and regular people spent the last six years pointing to the hypocrisy and crimes that Trump and his allies were perpetrating *in plain sight*, and yet we still got, you know, the last six years.
Last 6 years? Trump was in office 4 years. wdym?
@@learntospellpeople his ideas still live on in the states. as bad as he was, he still has support to this day.
As a conservative, I completely agree and would add to that concern how Trumpism has supplanted authentic conservatism. Family values, free markets, etc. all went right out the window when Republicans saw the success of his facts-free bombast. Genuinely meritorious perspectives on the right, from economics to foreign policy to American identity, have been relegated to a sideshow while Republicans vye for a better spot in the Trump limelight. The ease with which Trump did this makes me question the core ideology of millions of people who continue to support his behavior - an ideology I largely share and now wonder might predispose people to following terrible leadership. My hope is that this is that rare wildfire ignited by extenuating economic circumstances that comes about once or twice a century, followed by people returning to sound convictions and values - rather than creating a permanent new identity for the party, for conservatism, and God forbid for America.
@@grievance5_566 because like Joe McCarthy, Donald John Trump knows how to tell his followers what they want to hear.
you are true blbec
This is such a helpful and interesting series
Thank you! Two more to come. We created this series, and the corresponding lesson plans, because we kept hearing from teachers that they needed better Cold War materials. Tell all your teacher friends :)
Sounds pretty familiar and relevant. The US is suffering from this brand of populism, still using fear as its main motivation for people that know no better.
Yep
Just like Trump, McCarthy didn't feel the need to back up anything he said with proof.
The US is suffering from Cultural Marxism.
@@jerometaperman7102 that would surprised me very much because that was the reason he left his job at the Nuremberg trials but hey, you saw a 10 minute video
both sides use fear but one is justified and the other is fabricated. already there are commie universalists virtue signaling in the comments. quite funny
It will be interesting to see how this ends.
Well .. this aged like wine 🍷😅
This Was Very helpful And The #1stRedScare(1919-1920) That Had Occurred Way Before #McCarthyism,This Is Very Similar.
Read the Murrow boys novel. Eric Severide was actually the first to go after McCarthy. When Murrow finally chimed in the senator was already in decline.
McCarthy must have felt that the report done by Murrow was more powerful than others because he said that he does not usually respond when being, 'attacked' by news media, but he felt that he had to react to Murrow's 'Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy'.
The real victims was the lives he destroyed by his outright lies
Edward R. Murrow was so handsome and he kicked butt. ❤️
Seven decades later, the GOP tries again.
democrats were the party pushing for slavery so you think thats an own?
The harassment has never stopped.
“But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.“
From The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy by Andrew Bernstein
Can we just talk about how "they're a communist" or "they're a socialist" has become completely normal?
Exactly -- there are so many parallels to today... which to be honest, is what we often find while making our Retro Reports.
Or “they’re a nazi” or “they’re a racist”
Is that, Ted Cruz's Father?
It beats me, but you've got to admit that there's a resemblance.
Remember, when an old person writes you off as socialist, communist, etc, they’re just regurgitating BS from this era.
It's not BS.
@@nataliep.9047 Sure it is, fuckturd.
I'm young. Not a thing about this is BS.
@@2KCamaroZ28SSnot sure how someone can look at McCarthyism and say none of it was BS.
OP is talking about people that don’t discuss and don’t debate. They get emotional and about “communist!” as a slander and then don’t deal in the substance of any ideas.
If someone labels everyone they disagree with a communist or a fascist or some other misused supercharged word then they aren’t worth listening to much more.
@@vhufeosqap The truth is that McCarthy, with his self-serving irresponsibility, was the greatest asset the Soviets had in this country.
There was excellent reason to be concerned about Communism then. For one thing, the Soviets, with their 1939 alliance with Hitler, gave Germany the go-ahead to begin WWII, in full partnership with them until the Nazis broke the pact two years later; and then after the war they just swallowed up the entirety of Eastern Europe. Their arrangement with Hitler had granted them most of it in 1939 -- but after the war they took all of it and more, going as far as halfway into Germany, and turning that vast amalgam of countries into an enormous slave empire. They'd promised Roosevelt ("I like old Joe" -- FDR) they'd hold free elections there so that the peoples of those countries could choose whatever kind of government they wanted. Yeah, right.... How'd that work out for you, Franklin?
Not only were they on the march militarily, swallowing up all those countries (they tried to get Greece, too, but fortunately were stopped), but thanks to Communist spies in the U.S., Stalin, the most evil man in the world of that era, had the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb. Wonderful.
And there WERE Communists in the state department. Alger Hiss, for example, who had been feeding the Soviets America's secrets for years, was #3 man in the U.S. delegation at the Yalta Conference when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met to work out the postwar plan. Thanks to Hiss the Soviets knew America's negotiating points in advance, which helped them tremendously. And there were many, many others like Hiss.
Not to mention the major spy network the Soviets had at the very top level of the U.K. government, etc., etc.... Plus the fact that the U.S.S.R. was an utter totalitarian hellhole, imprisoning and murdering vast numbers of their own people, as they had been doing since the very beginning in the days of Lenin and Trotsky.
So Americans were right to be concerned about Communism in the postwar world. But McCarthy's disgraceful behavior made anticommunism itself suspect. For decades afterwards anyone who seriously questioned Communism was immediately "cancelled" by being called a McCarthyite by Leftists. And as always happens, decent liberals went along with this, as they always assume that the Left has the same agenda as they do. It's foolish, but that's what happens.
That's why I say McCarthy did so much to help Communism.
He was a first-class shmuck.
Republicanism is based on Communism. The communist households are the private matters, the rei privatae, which share an interstitial public matter, a res publica, a republic which their delegates can govern as stewards, without interfering or imposing democracy on any res privata. The pillars of Republicanism are Liberty of the individual, Autonomy of the communist household, and Consensus on the Commons. Just as there can be no Republics without Communist households, you cannot be both a Republican and anti-Communist. Yet McCarthy and the people of post-Reconstruction USA had been so brainwashed by democratic propaganda that they cheered on the self-destructive diatribes of anti-Communism. Also note the classic democratic blame-shifting of calling MCCarthy’s demagoguery “populist”, when it, like Andrew Jackson’s, was clearly democratic.
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@@lekmirn.hintern8132 Not
Listen to Myron Fagans speeches from the 60’s. A lot more info than any propaganda channel will allow on the subject.
He was right as we can now see
Who, McCarthy? LOL
@@harmonicpsyche8313 Myron Fagan knew a lot more than McCarthy
Has any man in history proven to be more correct than Joseph McCarthy? I can't think of one.
McCartney was the Trump of his day. Thank God he didn't become president.
@@gonzoyork1908 Nah, history has resoundingly vindicated McCarthy. The Venona Decrypts prove McCarthy was right on virtually everything he said. The Paul Revere of his time, and one of the greatest Americans to ever live.
@@scoobtube5746 So, he was right about the party that got the US into the Korean War to stop the spread of Communism is also the party that was weak on Communism and would never do a thing to stop its spread? The only people who feel McCarthy was vindicated are those that want to rewrite history to portray their political rivals as anti-American.
This man was correct and history owes him an apology
Turns out McCarthy was right.
Who is the opinionated diverse person babbling
When I look at whats going on today, both on college campuses and across the nation, I hope there’s a special place in hell for Edward R. Murrow. We should have listened to McCarthy.
McCarthy would have a field day today with all these snowflakes and millenials wanting socialism/communism
Would he still be doing it by accusing without evidence? The former president refers to that as a, 'witch hunt'.
Being able to increase America's fear of communism was McCarthy's main goal and that would not happen today with the majority of the population, so he would not have a, 'field day'. Most people today would not pay any attention to McCarthy.
He’d have a field day because he would unfortunately find many not so smart people to work up into a frenzy about an imagined threat.
Hell, today the Qanon crowd is delusional by the crap they actually believe. Credulous and silly people.
Socialism and communism aren’t identical for starters, you fool.
McCarthy was right
The Communist will always slander this patriot.
McCarthy slandered endless people dummy. Facts hard for you?
McCarthy was right.
He slandered and ruined lives. Shame on you
I'm not in the mood to watch this now, I will later. I know without watching it what the story line is without watching it. The story line is that the the leftist media turd is the hero and Senator McCarthy is the meannie. Since Senator McCarthy's time till now the only thing that is commonly known is the absurd, dumbass comment a civilian bureaucrat made at a hearing toward Senator McCarthy, which has been blown through the decades. I could certainly fill in the blanks with what should have been Senator McCarthy's reply. Senator McCarthy was a very highly decorated US Army Air Corp WW II vet. President Truman should have been well aware of the communist threat to the US, the Korean War should have made him aware of it. He should have gone to Congress for a Declaration of War for Korean instead of hiding under the cover of the UN. While Senator McCarthy had the backbone to bring attention to the activities of communists in the US, both US 'citizens' and spies from foreign countries as usual most in both houses of Congress were chickenshit. It was during this time that a traitor by the name of fukes delivered to the USSR the details, and drawings of the US atomic bomb. I can see in the comments someone bragging about the george clooney turd, I'm sure the george clooney turd would have enjoyed the opportunity to have witnessed the Korean war as a US GI, or Marine..
You sure talk about George clooney’s turds a lot
He slandered loads of people and ruined their lives. I’m ’not in the mood’ to entertain low IQ bigots who cant get their heads around this simple fact.