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Not only with regard to content but also in questions of employment policy, with which this report is mainly concerned, the limitations imposed by the financial structure of the industry require complicated and immensely difficult policy decisions. In this area it is hardly sur- prising to see the entertainment industry — with its sensitivity to the climate of opinion, its concern for public favor, its wish to avoid prov- ocation of pressure groups, and its existing machinery for barring from the air anything assumed to be detrimental to the business purposes of the industry — becoming enmeshed in a variety of procedures, com- monly referred to as "blacklisting'*, which reflect the developments initiated by the country's concern with internal security. It is the pur- pose of the present study to explore what these practices mean within the industry. Scope and Purpose of this Study The exploration of the role of "blacklisting" within the entertainment industry can, of course, take various directions. A number of them are pursued in other sections of the larger inquiry of which this study forms a part. The focus here is on the climate of opinion within radio and television with regard to "blacklisting"; it is a study of certain aspects of morale. The study proceeded in three major steps. It began with a general period of exploration of the work situation in the industry. This in- cluded a study of what is available in the literature, the technical pub- lications of the industry — especially Variety — and publications such as Counterattack, Red Channels, The Firing Line (published by the National Americanism Committee of the American Legion), Aware, Inc.; also the files available on the subject at the American Civil Lib- erties Union, including reports on cases of alleged "blacklisting", and relevant clippings from the daily press on a nation-wide basis over several years, reports of Congressional Committees, etc. During this first orientation period prolonged discussions and interviews were held with 24 experts in the field of radio and television and related research areas. Among them were four psychologists, one psychiatrist, two sociologists, one lawyer, two critics; but mostly top level commentators, actors and writers for the industry, who knew the field not simply as interested observers but from daily experience. The second step consisted of an interview survey with persons cur- 227