The 19 articles that comprise this book are concerned with the subject of communications and media in Canada. In Part One, "The Media: A Diagnosis," the articles are "The Power and Impotence of the Media" by Russell Elman, "The Myth of Objectivity" by Walt McDayter, "In the Shadow of Giants: Concentration and…

Describes television programs broadcast in the Netherlands and West Germany which explain what chemistry is all about. Both programs, planned under the direction of trained chemists, comprise 13 half-hour presentations and include segments on energy, polymers, chemical processes, the chemistry of life, atomic and molecular chemistry, and chemistry…

All children today live in an aural and visual world--yet virtually every education program in the country is based on the print world of 50 years ago. Television must be used to provide motivation for children, particularly disadvantaged children, which print cannot--it must provide a socializing situation, make the real world a part of the…

Community antenna television (CATV) is particularly important because of its potential for economically supplying a large number of channels, for providing viewer feedback, and for at least partially shifting the basis of programing support from the advertiser to the viewer. This study examines these aspects of CATV in order to accomplish the…

Because of opposition from traditional religious leadership, Saudi Arabia started its national television system years later than most other major Middle East nations. The system was built under the supervision of the United States government, with funds provided by the Saudi Arabian government. Equipment was installed and is maintained by…

The author describes the program which permitted six out of seven candidates for the May 1972 senatorial primary in North Carolina to appear free on educational television. Each candidate was given one hour for his program, with the first thirty minutes spent in a presentation of his own choosing and the last half hour devoted to questioning by a…

Inadequate educational techniques and systems are the root causes of student dissent; because television has shown them the realities of the outside world students are not willing to accept the insular, isolationist, esoteric irrelevance that is rampant in formal education. Throughout the world, the value of electronic communications is being…

There is a need for radio and television programming which will present information, role models, and positive images of aging. (RC)

This report presents the activities of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for 1979. Sections deal with the following topics: telecommunications activities, including public radio, educational television, the program fund unit, educational activities, and the children's program project; planning and research, including communication and…

Current theories of national economic development are reviewed and found unsatisfactory, and an alternative scheme is presented, based on the concepts of consumerism and producerism, as well as the realization that development is not a unitary phenomenon, but proceeds at different rates in different sectors of the economy and different parts of a…

Representative democracy is unlikely to persist for long in its present state of instability. Unless we move forward into a more participatory democracy we may find our government increasingly bland and manipulative, brutish and tyrannical. The fundamental question about television is how it can help the growth of participatory democracy. We need…

Traces the development of the American television industry as a major unelective source of power, cause of changes in social behavior, and factor in the management of the economy. Suggests ways to make use of educational broadcasting and to initiate a mechanism for critical analysis of the institutional structure of television. (Author/AV)