A theme throughout our coverage this weekend, across different issues and different parts of the world, is the threats the media faces externally and from within.
Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan writes about George Clooney and his role as Edward R Murrow, the CBS anchor regarded as the most trusted man in 1950s America, in a New York play.
Duggan writes the conceit of Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck concerns Murrow’s courageous stand against the bullying “Red Scare” senator Joseph McCarthy despite mounting pressure from his network.
Clooney was filmed outlining the theme of the play in a segment on 60 Minutes before opening night.
In this segment Clooney said “when…