An advanced showing of the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck" will come to Ball State University's Pruis Hall Tuesday at 8 p.m.
The award-winning movie is a dramatization of news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's fight against the government during the 1950s. It re-enacts Murrow's struggle with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., during a time in which speaking out against the government was considered taboo.
"Edward R. Murrow is a hero, not only of mine, but just about everybody in broadcast news," Phil Bremen, instructor of telecommunications, said.
Bremen negotiated with Warner Independent Pictures to show the movie during National Freedom of Speech Week.
Murrow was a radio broadcaster for CBS during World War II in Europe. He, along with Bill Shadel, were the first to report about the Nazi death camps on Murrow's show, "Hear It Now." When Murrow returned to the United States, he was offered an opportunity to become the host of a television show called "See It Now."
The movie addresses issues of freedom for an independent press, Bremen said.
"[These are] not democratic or republican issues, they are issues of democracy," he said.
The movie started a campaign, "Report It Now," sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, PBS, Salon.com and other groups who support freedom of the press.
The campaign encourages people to post happenings in their community that relate to the same issues brought up in the movie.
"I try to keep up on what's going on in pop culture," Bremen said. "Especially when it intersects with the news business,"
Only 300 tickets are available for the showing at Ball State, Kari Anderson, the executive promotions manager for the movie, said.
It is one of the first advanced showing in Indiana, she said.
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