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The Red Scare Index:42

April 06, 2009 10:18 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 last, Friday, April 3, 2009:

TOTAL: 42
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 26
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 16
Marxism/Marxist: 0

By Network:

CNN: 6
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 5
Marxism/Marxist: 0

CNN Headline News: 5
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 5
Marxism/Marxist: 0

Fox News Channel: 20
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 16
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 4
Marxism/Marxist: 0

Fox Business Network: 10
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 9
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 0

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

CNBC: 0
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
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, Attacks on Progressives, Propaganda/Noise Machine

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- by magnolialover (April 06, 2009 10:40 am ET)
  
  I do like the red scare index, maybe you guys could work on a "fascist" index as well? Since we are seeing a lot of that word out there today.
  
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