http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Murrow Posts tagged with 'Murrow' at MetaFilter. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:44:39 -0800 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:44:39 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/66783/a%2Dtrue%2DAmerican%2Dhero <a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/NEWS06/711200368/1008">Milo Radulovich, RIP</a> --thrown out of the Air Force during the Red Scares, he fought back--Radulovich's case (and the new medium of TV) showed millions the impact McCarthy was having and the absurd lengths he was going to. He himself wasn't ever accused of being a Communist himself tho: <i>... His sister had picketed outside the Book Cadillac Hotel when it refused a room to black entertainer Paul Robeson. His father subscribed to newspapers from his native Yugoslavia and had participated in a sit-down strike at Hudson Motor Car Co. ...</i> 1998: <a href="http://www.law.msu.edu/news/1998/milestone.html"> Michigan Legal Milestone--"Milo Radulovich and the Fall of McCarthyism"</a> NYT Obit: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/us/21radulovich.html">Milo Radulovich, 81, Dies; Symbol of ’50s Red Scare</a>--<i>...“the first time any of us appreciated the power of television.” ...</i> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0506/p02s03-uspo.html">The Red Scare revisited: inside McCarthy files</a> <a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/history/huac/McCarthy_Hearings_Part_1/">HUAC Army-McCarthy hearing transcript</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66783 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:44:39 -0800 CBS coldwar communist law McCarthy media murrow politics radulovich red redscare tv amberglow http://www.metafilter.com/55065/Disenthralling%2DAmerica Keith Olbermann's Edward R. Murrow^{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Murrow">*</a>}</a> moment: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15004160/">A Textbook Definition of Cowardice</a>. MSNBC's host excoriates Bush, FOX News host Chris Wallace, and the media for its response to former president Clinton's "<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/26/EDG6PKDTVA1.DTL">tantrum</a>" [still being discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/55020">here</a>]. <small>Note: Don't just read the transcript. Watch the video, because Olbermann's use of visuals adds greatly to the power of his presentation. No matter which side of the red/blue-state divide you're on, students of politics and media will be reviewing this clip for years to come as a little cultural watershed -- if only a consummate example of "Democrat" anger^TM.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.55065 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:25:58 -0800 911 Bush Clinton Countdown Democrats FOXNews GOP Lincoln media MSNBC Murrow Olbermann Osama Republicans Wallace digaman