News on Joseph McCarthy

Shades Of Homophobia In Coverage Of Gay Partner Bill

2010-02-27T03:25:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Coverage of a domestic partnership bill in Nevada hits close to a homophobic nerve</div><div><p> <p>Coverage of a <a>domestic partnership bill approved Sunday by the Nevada Legislature over the objections of Governor Jim G...

The Newseum Hosts A Screening Of "Good Night, And Good Luck"

2009-03-14T11:42:50Z

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 26: (L-R) Former television journalist Nick Clooney, his son actor George Clooney, and Bill Small chairman of news and documentary Emmys at the National Television Academy ...

Laughing to some purpose

2010-03-02T06:04:00Z

<div><p> REVEL WITH A CAUSE : LIBERAL SATIRE IN POSTWAR AMERICA by Stephen E. Kercher University of Chicago Press, <p> As a late Seventies teenager, I was exposed to two distinct brands of American humour -- or 'yomour' as it tended to be pronounced -- each diametrically opposed to the other. One was the

Revulsion against McCarthy

2010-02-28T06:42:17Z

<div><p><em class="bold">The Guardian, June 12 1954 </em></p><p>Senator Joseph McCarthy was all over the front pages again this morning, but the instinct that put him there was for once not his. It looked as if, finally, an impulse of moral revulsion had galvanised the country and braced the backbone of an incongruous variety of his victims. The Depart...

Good Night, and Good Luck

2010-03-04T04:47:51Z

<div><p>Edward R Murrow, as revered a figure in American broadcasting as Richard Dimbleby is in ours, was initially famous for his Second World War radio coverage of the Blitz, his pieces crackling across the Atlantic from a Britain under siege. Like