My father told me from the get-go to treat [the movie's story] like a journalist. And he was absolutely right. We wanted to do with this material pretty much what Murrow and Friendly did with their McCarthy broadcast. We wanted to just put the material out there and to be as tight and contained as we could so that the story itself was the star.

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