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A Shadow of Red : Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television by David Everitt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Shadow of Red : Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television about?
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. The conflict has routinely been portrayed as a simplistic morality tale of persecutors and the persecuted, the standard witch-hunt narrative of right-wing fanatics hounding political innocents whom they insisted were agents of the Communist devil. But, as David Everitt makes clear, the blacklisters, though excessive and destructive, were not del
Who reads A Shadow of Red : Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Everitt
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher; Ivan R. Dee
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566635752
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13