--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: See It Now image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee39ed33b930a4b/69869f2d06f2c16c07330486/t100_tv_see-it-now1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _See It Now_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett On the one hand, the title captured the potential of the then-new medium for journalism: we will record it, and you will see it, now. (The first shot was a then mind-blowing split-screen live image of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: two coasts, in your living room, at once!) On the other hand, _See It Now_ did not just use television as a transmission tool; it took full advantage of TV’s editing and production capabilities to assemble a new kind of news narrative. Its most famous confrontation was between Edward R. Murrow and Red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose old-fashioned demagoguery proved no match for TV’s power to rebut his claims and, worse, allow him to make a fool of himself on camera, letting America see him, and clearly. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/"},"headline":"See It Now","datePublished":"2014-08-12T15:19:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:45.468Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/","keywords":["Documentary","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee39ed33b930a4b/69869f2d06f2c16c07330486/t100_tv_see-it-now1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee39ed33b930a4b/69869f2d06f2c16c07330486/t100_tv_see-it-now1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/","name":"See It Now"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See It Now","description":"See It Now did not just use television as a transmission tool; it took full advantage of TV's editing and production capabilities to assemble a new kind of news narrative.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hc02QTOp/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-05T14:02:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hc02QTOp.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/","duration":"PT31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103769/see-it-now/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```