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Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television
Ivan R. Dee
May 2007
On Sale: April 25, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 1566635756
EAN: 9781566635752
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Cold War came to broadcasting in 1950. In that year,
just as the Korean War was about to erupt, there appeared
from a small publisher a booklet called Red Channels, which
listed 151 suspected Communist sympathizers in broadcasting.
Within months the blacklist in radio and TV began. The purge
of the airwaves, distinct from the better-known blacklist in
the movie industry, provoked one of the American media's
great free-speech controversies. It affected scores of
writers, directors, and actors, yet it was instigated by
only a handful of anti-Red watchdogs-three ex-FBI agents, a
former naval intelligence officer, and a grocer from
Syracuse. A Shadow of Red follows the efforts of these five
guardians of the broadcast media in a revealing history of
the period, based on interviews, personal correspondence,
FBI reports, and court transcripts.
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