Goodnight and Good Luck

I’m linking here to a speech by Edward Murrow made in 1958 when I was ten years old. Goodnight and good luck

Not only is it frighteningly prescient but also chilling to see how far back the media of television gave up informing and educating in favour of titillating and entertaining. If any journalists come across this blog then I hope that, after hanging their heads in shame, they rise up and restore investigative journalism to the heights to which it once aspired.

Free Julian Assange now!

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