>"At the dawn of the Cold War era, dozens of progressive women working in radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. Carol Stabile explores this shameful period in American history."

Imagine American television if W.E.B. Du Bois had been a news commentator at CBS. This was one of the things that the FBI was really concerned about

smh when ppl say Trump has original ideas and has been good to women and people of color... “Reagan “used the phrase family values to attack groups that did not conform to anti-communists’ preferred version of Americanism: welfare moms, people of color, immigrants, students, and his progressive critics.” In fact, adds Stabile, Reagan’s 1980 campaign (“Let’s Make America Great Again”), like Donald Trump’s 2016 revival, drew on sexist, isolationist, and white supremacist visions of the past rooted in the television narratives anti-communists had created in the 1950s.”

FBI’s anti-communist crusade and what might be learned from the stories of the women who were censored and purged from television in the 1950s is a powerful backlash against progressives in media who were seen as a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves - a politicizing of actual families in a 'televiszed' manner just to gain it 'all' while destroying other people's lives.