Even when, while watching, I noticed modern «news
reporters» on
television got a lot of their interviewing technique from McCarthy... I'm not sure how Clooney got away with it — some of the footage is cleaner than the rest and it's all supposed to be on
television, but it presumably would have
looked better — maybe he made it part of the black and white film agreement... you're watching Good Night, and Good Luck and it's in black and white and so you're going to accept what follows.