<P> The film is framed by performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association at "A Salute to Edward R. Murrow" on October 25, 1958, in which he harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public, so that it does not become only "wires and lights in a box". </P> <Ul> <Li> David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow, journalist and host of the CBS television program See It Now </Li> <Li> George Clooney as Fred W. Friendly, coproducer with Murrow of See It Now </Li> <Li> Robert Downey, Jr. as Joseph Wershba, writer, editor, and correspondent for CBS News </Li> <Li> Patricia Clarkson as Shirley Wershba </Li> <Li> Frank Langella as William Paley, chief executive of CBS </Li> <Li> Jeff Daniels as Sig Mickelson, Director of CBS News </Li> <Li> Tate Donovan as Jesse Zousmer </Li> <Li> Ray Wise as Don Hollenbeck, journalist for CBS News; accused in the press of being a "pinko". </Li> <Li> Alex Borstein as Natalie </Li> <Li> Thomas McCarthy as Palmer Williams </Li> <Li> Rose Abdoo as Mili Lerner </Li> <Li> Reed Diamond as John Aaron </Li> <Li> Matt Ross as Eddie Scott </Li> <Li> Grant Heslov as Don Hewitt, director of See It Now </Li> <Li> Joseph McCarthy (archive footage) as Himself </Li> <Li> Liberace (archive footage) as Himself </Li> <Li> Roy Cohn (archive footage) as Himself </Li> </Ul> <Li> David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow, journalist and host of the CBS television program See It Now </Li> <Li> George Clooney as Fred W. Friendly, coproducer with Murrow of See It Now </Li>

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