One more drama sans documentary

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2005)

I give this movie a 3 because it is a propaganda. I do not enjoy seeing a movie, no matter how funny, well directed or acted; that pretends to be an accurate reflection of the past, and is not. Too many young people see movies like this and come away with a distorted perspective about the era following WWII, which did not really end until the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of Soviet communism. Mc Carthy was not the only person who made a fool of himself. Those who denied the threat of communism in this county were members of a tribe that Lenin called "useful idiots". Is this movie trying to make another generation? Clooney's Murrow is an American Eagle. My impression of Murrow at the time (yes I saw the show on B & W TV was that he was more like a buzzard picking the bones of an animal already dead.