The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
PBS
Aired: Oct. 06, 2005
Excerpt:
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, what is it exactly that you’re trying to say about journalism as Murrow practiced it?
GEORGE CLOONEY: I don’t know a reporter that doesn’t want to break a
big news story. It is constantly the battle between commerce and news,
or keeping entertainment from pushing the news off the air.I was looking to open a debate, to have a discussion, to be able to
talk about issues that I think are important. It’s simply saying, as
Murrow says in the film, we have to find a way to find a safe place
between the protection of the individual and the protection of the
state at the same time.
