"This book is an original and comprehensive study of the development, role and control of national newspapers in Zambia. It deals with the relationship between national newspapers on one hand and the state and people on the other. It traces the press in Zambia from its humble beginnings in 1906 to t
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he ambitious plans 1983 to launch the Sunday Drum." (Publisher description)
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"Instead of describing typical systems in their entirety ...," says Head in his foreword, "I decided to organize the text on the basis of the common problems faced by all systems" to show the basic, universal demands and dilemmas they all must face as each interacts with its particular national sett
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ing. His purpose is to enable students, after allowances for limitations imposed by national settings, to appraise the system critically by comparing reality with the ideal possibilities. Thus, he discusses, in terms of the various systems, their origins, their politics of both ownership and access, their laws, regulation, economics, facilities, programming and programs, audience research, transborder broadcasting, and broadcasting and freedom. Although intended as a text, this has much wider uses." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 652)
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"The role of the press in developing nation like Kenya — The ownership of newspapers — Problems of language for information in Africa." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1190, topic code 110.1, 140)