Critical Praise
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Herbert Schiller *** "Lively, eloquent, and concrete... Reading this book, one is carried along by the intelligence of its exploration, swept up in the pace, in the moral and political sensitivity of the argument... Political-cultural analysis that is important, personal, and compelling." Donald Hurwitz *** "A fine introduction to a new environmental movement, one concerned with the quality of the symbolic environment." Dean George Gerbner *** "An exceptional book... I cannot emphasize too strongly that Mediaworld is among the few really solid works on mass communications to be published in recent years. It is beautifully, even at times elegantly written, and closely argued... It could become a major work." James Carey *** "This is a volume that should be widely and thoughtfully read; it is adaptable to seminars and advanced courses in communications and media criticism." Choice,
Julian Jaynes *** "A mischievous debunking of media moralists in the service of awaking us to the real problems of media as he sees them." Peter Dahlgren
Leonard Thompson *** "Political cynics deride the notion that
the hearts and minds of people make any real world difference.
In this fascinating book on the media response to South African
apartheid, John Phelan brilliantly demonstrates that the cynical
wisdom is wrong." *** "In the complex assemblage of mechanisms
which maintain apartheid, none is more crucial than government
management of mass media. John Phelan's first-hand study of this
subject - and of the roles of opposition and world media in response
to it - will be invaluable to all students of the South African
tyranny."
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