Contents and Contributors: Theodore Peterson, "The Historical Framework"; James Rosse, "The Economic Setting"; Benno Schmidt, "The Media and Government: How Much Constraint to What End?"; Ithiel de Sola Pool, "The New Technologies: Their Promise of Abundant Channels at Lower Cost"; William Porter, "The Media Baronies: Bigger, Fewer, More Powerful"; Edward J. Epstein, "How Media Institutions Process Reality"; William Henry, "News as Entertainment: The Search for Dramatic Unity"; Michael Robinson, "Presidential Elections as TV Drama"; Robert L. Bartley, "The Business of News and the News of Business"; John Hulteng, "The Rights of Readers and Viewers: Avenues of Accountability"; George Comstock, "Social and Cultural Impacts"; Elie Abel, "Conclusion".
Biography
ELIE ABEL came to Stanford University in 1979 as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication after nine years at Columbia University, where he was Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Formerly with the New York Times as national and foreign correspondent and head of its Balkan and South Asian bureaux, in 1961 he joined NBC News as State Department correspondent, London bureau chief, and diplomatic correspondent. He is the author of three books-The Missile Crisis (1966, reprinted in nine languages), Roots of Involvement: The U.S. in Asia (1971), written in collaboration with Marvin Kalb, and Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin (1975), written with W. Averell Harriman. Abel has received two awards from the Overseas Press Club, a Peabody Award, and he shared the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's MacBride commission which recently concluded a two-year study of international communication problems, and in 1980 he attended the 21st UNFBCO General Conference at Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as a member of the U.S. delegation.
