Comparison: Reverend Hale And Edward R. Murrow

Opinions. Have you ever had an opinion about something that no one else agreed with? In the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller and the movie Good Night and Good Luck directed by George Clooney people have a way of seeing things and because of the environment they have grown up in it is easier for them to judge people with different opinions. Reverend Hale and Edward R. Murrow are very similar. Hale and Murrow are both reporters. Reverend Hale is against witchcraft and Murrow is against McCarthyism as well as Communism. Hale and Murrow both state important facts. Reverend Hale and Edward R. Murrow have many similarities.
One way they are similar is that they are both reporters. Reverend Hale worked for the court by collecting information and reporting it back to the court. An example that shows this is when Reverend Hale questions other characters through the book. He asked Cheever, “Why? What is the meaning of this?” (Act 2, Page 78). Reverend Hale reports all the information that Cheever tells him to the court. Edward R. Murrow works for CBS news and reports information to the people. An example of this is when Edward R. Murrow

Hale said the Danforth, “ Excellency, it is a natural lie to lie; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more- private vengeance is working through this testimony,”(Act 3, pg 119). Hale strictly stays to the facts because if he does not one could be punished for something they did not do. Edward R. Murrow says, “This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.” This means that if T.V. does not involve any inspiration or truth it is nothing but a box. Murrow sticks to the facts because they people deserve to know the