Video rising -- The Gestalt of the blacklist -- Controversial personalities -- Hypersensitivity: the codes of television censorship -- Forums of the air -- Roman circuses and Spanish inquisitions -- Country and God -- Edward R. Murrow slays the dragon of Joseph McCarthy -- The Army-McCarthy hearings (April 22-June 17, 1954) -- Pixies: homosexuality, anticommunism, and television -- The end of the blacklist -- Exhuming McCarthyism: the paranoid style in American television