History rhymes with echo chamber irony as CNN airs play while democracy’s lights flicker

History rhymes with echo chamber irony as CNN airs play while democracy’s lights flicker

Good night and good luck… good grief! “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty,” intoned the ghost of Edward R. Murrow through archival footage, re-aired by CNN last night in a prime-time special commemorating journalism’s fight against demagoguery. The words, first spoken seventy years ago to combat Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts, now hang likeContinue reading "History rhymes with echo chamber irony as CNN airs play while democracy’s…