"Mientras la prensa es mediata, la radio es inmediata. Puede estar al pie de la noticia en cualquier momento y podemos recibir su mensaje casi sin limitaciones, porque el transistor y las baterÃas no nos obligan a depender de la energÃa eléctrica. Lo anterior nos hace pensar que la radio requiere
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, dÃa a dÃá, más gente preparada en su manejo, mejores especialistas en cada una de sus manifestaciones y auténticos mÃsticos de una profesión, tan llena de expectativas, de futuro y de grandes realizaciones. La competencia de Ja radio frente a los otros medios, es primordialmente dar, cada vez, más y mejor servicio. Y antes que disputarse un determinado público, le brinda a éste un complemento y una mayor ampliación de la cultura, la información y la distracción. El principal objetivo de este libro es poder brindar a quienes se interesen por la radio una información lo más completa posible sobre sü funcionamiento, su manejo, sus incidencias como medio de comunicación y las diferentes alternativas que brinda en el plano profesional." (Introducción, página 9)
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"The compilers point out that little attention has been paid to mass communication in most Pacific islands, and their research proves them correct. There is one citation each for Easter Island and Midway Island. Hawaii has almost 2,000. This Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East
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and West bibliography contains citations to 3,332 books, periodicals, articles, documents, and pamphlets, and covers the years 1854-1975, with some entries from 1976. Topics include the press, newspapers, freedom of the press, broadcasting, news agencies, organizations, radio broadcasting, cinema, and television in the Pacific Islands. Entries are arranged alphabetically by more than 20 island groupings and broken down into specific subject areas, rumbered, and arranged chronologically within those subjects. Richstad also produced The Pacific Islands Press: A Directory (East-West Communication Institute, 1973)." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 99)
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"The emphasis of our study is on process, on the dynamics of accommodating the phenomenon of broadcasting and its institutional forms to the surroundings of a developing country for which it was not in the first instance designed," say the authors. They are also interested in side effects, some of w
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hich were not anticipated. Basing their work on an extensive review of statistical and documentary data concerning broadcasting in 91 developing countries and on case studies of 11 of these, they assess the status quo in terms of structure, control, and social and cultural patterns. The 11 countries include Algeria, Brazil, Cyprus, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Singapore, Tanzania, and Thailand. Contains a number of tables of data throughout and an appendix of supplementary tables. Two other appendixes give methodology and levels of development of the 91 selectcd countries. There are numerous footnotes and an index. Winner of the 1977 National Association of Education Broadcasters Award." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 672)
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