In the 1950s, Walter Cronkite hosted a CBS-TV program that used real network correspondents to report events from days well before radio or TV in the style of "live" television news. Called You Are There,* the program taught history -- and had a secret history of its own. All the writers were victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist. They used the tales of Joan of Arc, Galileo and other historical figures to make thinly disguised points about contemporary witch hunts. --
From [a] March 19 [NPR] Cronkite Essay: In March 1954, Edward R. Murrow, pictured here, and producer Fred Friendly aired on their show See It Now an attack on Sen. Joseph McCarthy. They took a big risk, but today the broadcast is considered one of the most influential in television history.
Communists are not conspiring to manipulate the media! (spoof of Eric Sevareid)