Hollywood producers “always maintained that the blacklist was essentially forced on them by a powerful one-two punch of politics and public opinion. True enough. But it’s also true that the Hollywood blacklist descended directly — perhaps even more so than previously thought — from a virulent strain of anti-union sentiment. New interviews, access to internal Hollywood memoranda and a review of the existing but largely forgotten record all suggest that unions — one in particular — threatened to cut into studio control and profits. And the studios would do anything, even ruin lives, to keep that from happening.” – Salon 01/11/00