"This study is especially interesting because Garbo, a Norwegian, writes not only from his own association with the United Nations, UNESCO and the International Programme for the Development of Communication, but also from a broad knowledge of flow-of-information literature. The story of his involvement in the futile efforts to remedy the uneven distribution of communication technology, news, and entertainment through international organization is, to a large extent, the history of the opposing viewpoints between the have's and havenot's. In the telling he reviews the research on content and possible effects, especially in regard to American television programs popular in developing countries. This is one of the best sources to gain a long-term perspective on media development in the Third World." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 140)