Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance

by George Wedell and Elihu Katz

Broadcasting has long been considered one of the keys to modernization in the developing world. Able to leap the triple barrier of distance, illiteracy, and apathy, it was seen as a crucial clement in the development of new nations. Recently, however, these expectations have been disappointed by broadcasting's failures to reach the rural masses and the urban unemployed. Broadcasting has also come under attack as serious questions have been raised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674494148
• ISBN13: 9780674494145
• Release Date: February 1977
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"