Ever seen a blacklist? This ... is CBS's

My friend Jeff Kisseloff, archivist of The Nation and author of The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961, contacted me 10 years ago because he was doing a story on the CBS blacklist from the 1950s and wanted to know if my newspaper was interested. As it turned out, the New York Times was also interested, so the article appeared there.

But I was always interested to know what a blacklist actually looked like. Now, on his blog, Jeff has posted it. He's also posted a page from Red Channels, the hysterical anti-Communist tract that had a ridiculous amount of clout when a few viewers started waving it around. The networks were terrified of being labeled as soft on Communism, and were willing to ruin the careers of dozens of writers and actors to appease a roomful of letter-writers.