Wilson GN&GL

In todays society with the many political issues going on in the country, I feel like Edward R. Murrow would not be very successful if he approached the issues as he did to Senator McCarthy. His manor of straight forward conversations, directly delivering the facts, and his ability to do a great amount of research on the topics he's arguing could be very captivating to today's audiences. However, I do feel that his audience has changed dramatically since he was on air in the 50's. today's audiences will be more prone to flipping through channels if the topic isn't as interesting as they want it to be, or not listening to the broadcast, while in the 50's, the audience would gather around the television to watch a program, and made sure that everyone was quiet and giving their full attention to the broadcast. While we did not get a good taste of the audience in the movie, I did get a feeling by the set up of the show that it was very personal: the close shots of Murrow sitting in a comfortable arm chair, the his eye contact with the camera a well lit studio to show his full face, etc. In today's television environment, I feel that the same level of intimacy wouldn't go over as well as it did in the 50's simply because thats not what television viewers want. Todays viewers want informed reports by professionals, while Murrow's show was more of a conversation.