The Red Channels

Welcome, this is my first post under my Twitter "Subject of interest" for the weekend:
 The Red Channels-

 Often overlooked, the graylist, like the  Blacklist of the Hollywood community  became targets as their jobs and outlooks, because of national politics.

The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) Other than the Targeted Hollywood industry professionals, named as communist before this Committee, there was the unnamed. The graylist contained names, as screenwriter Howard Koch, actor Marsha Hunt and musician Pete Seeger.

 As the Blacklist was created in 1947, and the Hollywood 10 cited for contempt,  the Motion Picture Association, give a statement. MPA- forthwith will dichage or suspend with out compensation and not re-employ any of the ten, until acquitted, and declared under oath not to be a Communist.
 The greater role of the MPA and affiliates is not to knowing employ a Communist or party member, or likewise group member.
 The blacklist was only the 10, initially in 1950 this list had grown to people who appeared before the the Committee and did not cooperate and those that were now identified by others, by people who now refused to "name names".

 The graylist became loss of employment because of political affiliation.
Red Channels was one  that singled out elements in Hollywood, often with little real
incriminating evidence, published their names than circulate. Their names on this smear publication made one effectively graylisted.

Like the Hollywood 10, the graylisted could appear before the Committee to clear their name from affiliation with the 10.

 Maybe the real representational change becomes more the vilified as the Communist threat and the view of art and the artist over politics.
A persons reputation is that persons view created by media and politics.
 Pete Seeger is, after all is said and has been done to his reputation is nothing less than a cultural icon. Being a cultural icon does cast a view on the subject of reputation.
The graylist with the name  Marsha Virginia Hunt, asked to denounce her activities by the Committee,  refused.  Nothing more than her support for liberal ideals and her name in the publication of Red Channels, afterwards work became not so easy to come by.

The processes of stereotyping and labeling a person, adversely affected consequences
  do spread through simple association. The Panic moving in a community goes beyond consequence.  As a Gay spots figure could have consequences, that of sponsorship and advertisers who pull sponsorship.  Activist can not control widespread indiscriminate stigma. Association do cause individuals to be punished by affiliation, under suspicion.
Once a person is labeled others see them as dangerous as abnormal and try not to be labeled or named themselves.
 To be stigmatized by moral panic, targeted for discrimination and for public deliberation by pure association, even casual association has a experience social divide.
 As norms and conformity is maintained by stigma and that association, by otherwise law-abiding citizens who are now characterized as "devils" and evil deviants.

 The norms is sustained when the high becomes the low, the pubic acclaim is stricken from the records, enforcing social norms on people with subversive ideologies.
 The witches of Salem and the Red Scare, form the conservative politicians who created the stereotyped communist as un-patriotic and danger to  the dominant groups.
The Witch hunts and blacklist that created the stigma to enforce the norm, became the danger to American society.

To create public fear, by moral panics with intent to damaged employment prospects, as mechanism for punishment, this affects us all.

 Reference:  Red Channels List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#The_Red_Channels_list