McCarthy Hearings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAur_I077NA

This video is interesting to me because seeing McCarthy talk about this is more realistic than just reading it. I never really realized that YouTube has videos that are historically helpful. The McCarthy hearings were the first hearings televised in US history. Media plays a huge role in society and in my opinion, these hearings being shown on TV showed the whole nation what was going on. They didn't have to be involved in the issue to watch it. Without it showing, I believe it wouldn't have been as huge of a deal as it was because the public wouldn't have had such a wide knowledge of the issues.