Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, had been wanting to make a programme about the red scare's witch-hunts for some time.

ECONOMIST: Milo Radulovich

There will also be sets from Supercharge, Super Cannes and Tommy Scott and the Red Scare who will be playing tracks from his days in Space and the latest material with his new outfit.

BBC: Made in Liverpool Mathew Street stage

September 11 was tragic in many ways, and it marked the beginning of the greatest decline in democracy in our country since the Japanese internment during World War II and the Red Scare of the 1950s.

CNN: How 9/11 began the decline in our democracy

Though McCarthy's campaign was long dead, a new enemy, terrorism, was stalking the public imagination, and terms like racial profiling and sneak-and-peek searches had entered the language to describe practices that the red-scare demagogue might well have approved of.

ECONOMIST: Milo Radulovich

We have also had a few health scares to keep our minds occupied - the Bird Flu scare, fish (red-tides), beef, and pork.

BBC: In Hong Kong, life goes on

Inside No 10 they joke that the annual scare story about scrapping the Red Arrows or the Trooping of the Colour will surely follow soon.

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