In this movie, the CBS News Studio was willing to stand up against Senator McCarthy. The senator was making false accusations about people being communist without any evidence. The government had sent a loyalty oath to CBS and forced them to sign it. This meant the news had to keep quiet about the issue and could not broadcast it to the general public. This was censorship. McCarthy was ‘‘imposing his personal or moral values on others’’. He felt that anyone who disagrees with him or criticize his methods is a communist. According to the First Amendment, Congress cannot make any laws to ‘‘abridge the freedom of the press’’. This directly implies how censorship is unconstitutional. The CBS News Studio has every right to speak against the wrongdoing of McCarthy without any restrictions from the government. The government has been trying to restrict journalists for a long time, the case of McCarthy occurred during the 1950s but if we trace back to 1735, we also see it occurring with John
