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For a film to unapologetically proclaim that journalists can hold a strong point of view, when it is supported by what that journalist uncontrovertibly considers the truth flies in the face of conventional ways of arguing about the media. According to some aesthetic standards a film with such a clear point of view should not seem good, on the surface, given showing two sides of any issue is supposed to be the gold standard for journalism, and a film is supposed to be ambiguous, presenting image and character, rather than an argument like a documentary. However, in the way that it brings Murrow to life and pays tribute to something he did that has likely been forgotten, the film makes a case for redefining what constitutes a good political film. Because the events depicted so clearly mirror events in our own political world and life, yet are done so in a way that grippingly recreates a lost era of the 1950s, a viewer gains the sense of being transported in a way that is the essence of cinema

The films theme raises a potentially provoking challenge to our own media obsessionyes, it is easy to condemn McCarthy now, with

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