If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.