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You're sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Enemy sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the realpolitik Look who bought the myth,

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  1. You're sharpening stones, walking on coalsTo improve your business acumen.Sharpening stones, walking on coals,To improve your business acumen.Enemy sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the realpolitikLook who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America"Let us not assassinate this man further Senator,you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir?At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" Lyric from “Exhuming McCarthy”— R.E.M., “Document”

  2. General outline I. Time-line II. The Role of the media in McCarthyism A. Objectivity as an ideological routine B. Radio and the wire services C. Newspapers and deadlines D. The medium of television proves to be an exception III. Trajectory chart

  3. Time-line 1950 McCarthy begins his campaign against the specter of “Communism” in the U.S. 1951 Murrow & Friendly buy NYT ad for “See It Now” about USAF meteoroligist Milo Radulovich. 1954, March 9 Murrow’s “See it now” airs on McCarthy.

  4. Time-line 1954, April The Army-McCarthy hearings televised beginning in April by ABC and NBC. 1954, Dec. The U.S. Senate votes 67-22 to strip McCarthy of his power. 1957 McCarthy dies of alcoholism.

  5. III. The Role of the media in McCarthyism A. Objectivity as an ideological routine B. Radio and the wire services C. Newspapers and deadlines D. The medium of television proves to be an exception

  6. Milo Radulovich reads a letter of support as he sits with his family, wife Nancy, and daughters Kathryn in 1953.

  7. Edward R. Murrow

  8. The Army-McCarthy hearings Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin

  9. Roy Cohn http://members.tripod.com/~bheller1/who-1.html

  10. Trajectory chart • Outsiders? — Alleged Communists in government and elsewhere • Goal for change? — Republican pres. victory in 1952 • Mainstream press’s ideological base? • For print news: A scientized form of objectivity that left them trapped in an uncritical journalistic routine. The immediacy of television changed this. • Outcome? McCarthy’s extremism was renounced, but the national narrative of anti-Communism remained central.

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