Ten minutes after losing the CNN livestream Feed once they switched to audience questions,
(I think it's back up?? the commercials are anyway)
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I began to wonder lots of stuff and wondered why I did not catch every nuance of the play,
"Good night and Good Luck," which I watched.
Remember the moon Launch?
The Twin Towers falling?
This felt like one of those momentous moments, although I'm missing a sentence or two explaining why.
First off, the universal streaming sans cable or streaming service made it seem like the good old days when large groups of people hung around the set in the living room to watch something.
Ah, nevermind, I didn't start this to reminisce.
You might go into the subtext one way or another, and I'm sure you all will soon.
Me breaking away to do this-or-that wasn't helpful, since every single line of the play was supposed to be important, and I missed tons, like who "Don Hollenbeck" was and why he committed suicide.
The way I piece it together is,
A man jokes that his ex-wife read some communist newspapers, and then we hear he died, while a woman sings.
OK I lost a lot. He didn't just "Die" and he wasn't sick.
Way later they tried getting reporters to comment on the play but they kept interrupting each other and had their own opinions. So OK we live in silos now, I sort of get that, and we pick and choose our news sources. Those reporters (some of them) claimed Murrow was an advocacy journalist,
And anyone assembling facts together might advocate one viewpoint or another.
I kept thinking of the motto on the top of this page,
Whose actual meaning is, you can fool yourself into an opinion and back your opinion up with tons of culled facts and viewpoints from people talking better than yourself.
When those opinions become official opinions and judgements from organizations and government officials, do you: reinforce those opinions with sets of facts or try to at least see the other points of view using different facts?
People doing that in Murrow's time got in trouble.
Bottom line, I hope it ends up on Youtube.
Also does every play on Broadway have to have music? It seemed so unnecessary, even if it was beautiful.
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