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The Red Scare Index: 46

March 30, 2009 11:00 am ET by Karl Frisch

Here is today's daily Red Scare Index -- our search of CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and CNBC for uses of the following terms: Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communistic, Marxism and Marxist.

Here are the numbers for Friday, March 27, 2009:

TOTAL: 46
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 25
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 18
Marxism/Marxist: 3

By Network:

CNN: 3
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 0

CNN Headline News: 3
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 2
Marxism/Marxist: 0

Fox News Channel: 27
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 15
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 12
Marxism/Marxist: 0

Fox Business Network: 2
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 0
Marxism/Marxist: 0

MSNBC: 10
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 4
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 3
Marxism/Marxist: 3

CNBC: 1
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 0
Marxism/Marxist: 0

The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.

Tags: Fox News Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox Business, Attacks on Barack Obama, Propaganda/Noise Machine

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    • Author by Ed.Greshko159 (March 30, 2009 12:14 pm ET)
         
      I wonder if this includes sarcastic references.....
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (March 30, 2009 3:05 pm ET)
         

      Sarcastic of the label application? Or sarcastic of Socialism? Include only positive referrences to Socialism or its application to someone?

      What would this infomation do for you? 

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    • Author by Brishon (March 30, 2009 5:52 pm ET)
         
      Should include Fascism, it's said quite a bit on Fox.
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    • Author by paul8616 (March 30, 2009 6:38 pm ET)
         
      Is someone making a graphic of this? A red scare chart?
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