Although Stone had been a mainstream journalist in the 1930s, appearing on shows like "Meet the Press" (then a radio show), in 1950 he found himself blacklisted and unable to get work, possibly because Stone publicly admitted to his "fellow traveler" tendencies. In 1953, inspired by the example of the muckraking journalist George Seldes and his political weekly, "In Fact", Stone started his own independent newsletter, "I. F. Stone's Weekly". Over the next few years, Stone's newsletter campaigned against McCarthyism and racial discrimination in the United States.