Editing Red Channels (section)

{{Short description|1950 publication that spurred the Hollywood blacklist era}}
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[[File:CounterattackMasthead.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|The May 7, 1948, issue of the ''[[Counterattack (newsletter)|Counterattack]]'' newsletter]]
'''''Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television''''' was an [[anti-communism|anti-Communist]] document published in the United States at the start of the  1950s. Issued by the [[right-wing]] journal ''[[Counterattack (newsletter)|Counterattack]]'' on June 22, 1950, the pamphlet-style book names 151 actors, writers, musicians, broadcast journalists, and others in the context of purported Communist manipulation of the entertainment industry. Some of the 151 were already being denied employment because of their political beliefs, history, or association with suspected subversives. ''Red Channels'' effectively placed the rest on a [[Blacklist (employment)|blacklist]].