"This book describes and analyzes the dramatically altered role of today's transnational news media in the technetronic age," says Hatchen, who probes how the current clashes and disputes over international communication between the West, the Socialist nations, and the Third World affect transnational journalism and mass communication. Chapters include "Communication for an Interdependent World," "International News System," "Communication Satellites and New Technology," "Internationalizing the World's News Media," "Clashing Ideologies: Five Concepts of the Press, " "Western Perspective on World News," "Third World Views of News Flow," and "Moving Together or Further Apart?" Bibliography and Index. A new edition was published in 1987." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 166)