i've not seen this movie yet

Director George Clooney on the set of Good Night, And Good Luck.photo: Melinda Sue Gordon

but i LOVE david strathairn AND skippy my personal favorite blog mentioned it in passing as well............

Celebrity Journalist Confessions of a Democratic Mind: George Clooney presses for freedom of the press
by J. Hoberman October 4th, 2005 12:07 PM

Like Robert Redford and Warren Beatty, George Clooney is a politically aware movie star who has taken the American political spectacle as his subject. Clooney's second feature as a director, the classy, credible docudrama Good Night, and Good Luck, restages the 1954 vid-screen prizefight in which newsman Edward R. Murrow vanquished demagogue Joe McCarthy. It's an unusually scrupulous reconstruction and, in a powerfully restrained performance, David Strathairn evokes Murrow as Brecht would have wished, by quoting him. Murrow's CBS colleagues—Fred Friendly, Shirley and Joe Wershba, Don Hollenbeck, and the network owner William Paley—are all played by actors. McCarthy plays himself, as do all the news subjects. Focusing on the issues that rise out of the spectacle, Clooney has made a movie that is both true to its period and relevant to present-day America. "I'm an old Jeffersonian," he told me last week before Good Night's American premiere at the New York Film Festival. "I think it's more important to have a free press than a free government."
Good Night, and Good Luck may be set in 1954, but it seems very much a post–9-11 film. You've said that you and Grant Heslov began writing the script three years ago. That's during the run-up to the Iraq war. Did you find yourself changing your conception in response to what was going on? I was getting beat up pretty good around that time. But I thought there were more important issues than Bill O'Reilly doing a show about my career being over because of my political views. I was concerned about the lack of debate. The conception changed only in that a book came out about how great McCarthy was and how wrong Murrow was . . . ..