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industry put his views thus: "In itself it (blacklisting) is an admission on the part of the TV industry that prerogatives that should be retained by them can be usurped by outside sources. And once they have started to give in to these sources, they will have to give in more." This alleged absence of individual responsibility for policy decisions about "blacklisting" makes it plausible that the impersonal managerial "they" are blamed for everything, to the detriment of morale in the industry. This is made all the easier because many policy decisions and struggles fought by management in the interest of curtailing outside interference are kept confidential. In the discussion with policy makers a number of incidents were mentioned which clearly show top execu- tives asserting individual responsibility, ignoring outside organizations, defending individual performers and striving to preserve an atmosphere suitable for constructive work. These incidents are known only to those directly involved. They cannot be fully identified in this report. The executives revealed them on the condition that their organizations not be mentioned. There can be little doubt that these incidents actually occurred; their constructive impact on morale in the industry would, of course, have been infinitely greater had they been revealed in full. One top executive, for example, mentioned a show sponsored by a producer of well-known consumer goods. After the show he received a number of letters threatening boycott of the goods unless a "subver- sive" actor was removed from the cast. The top executive was con- vinced that the accusation was false. He communicated with the sponsor, who had received similar mail. Both decided to ignore the threat. Nothing more was heard about it. The business of the sponsor is as flourishing as ever. Another top executive said that his organization was not very much impressed by mail accusing individual performers of the wrong political connections. He had learned to ignore such correspondence when he realized that the largest number of such letters he ever received hi an individual case was 200. On the other hand, when one favorite show altered its time schedule, 8,000 letters of protest came in. Nevertheless the show lost nothing of its popularity on the new schedule. Several executives said they knew that some of their biggest sponsors were annoyed by the interferences of one Mr. Johnson (the owner of three grocery stores in Syracuse who is said to be engaged in a one-man 254