Thirty-three articles present observations on how the media operate and how the media have affected society to date. The articles deal with a wide variety of topics, including the editorial page; political cartooning; daily-newspaper starts and suspensions from 1960 to 1969; journalistic ethics; well-known journalists, such as John Dunlap, James Gordon Bennet, Sr., Horace Greeley, William Randolph Hearst, and Walter Lippman; new journalism; landmark court decisions which have affected the news media; freedom of speech; libel laws; Soviet journalism; recent trends in magazines; satellite communications; the British Broadcasting Corporation; the history of the motion picture; local government and the media; the development of propaganda; corporate communications; and public relations in marketing. (GW)