The Red Scare Index: 66
Written by Karl Frisch
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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 yesterday, Thursday, April 9, 2009:
TOTAL: 66
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 32
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 26
Marxism/Marxist: 8
By Network:
CNN: 4
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 3
Marxism/Marxist: 0CNN Headline News: 4
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 4
Marxism/Marxist: 0Fox News Channel: 17
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 7
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 10
Marxism/Marxist: 0Fox Business Network: 18
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 16
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 2
Marxism/Marxist: 0MSNBC: 20
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 5
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 7
Marxism/Marxist: 8CNBC: 3
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 3
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.