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"This is a study both of measures taken by the South African government to control its mass media and of the efforts of its journalists and others to express their views and resist those restreints," (introduction). The authors examine the conflict between government and press in a social, economic, ... more

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The World News Prism: Changing Media, Clashing Ideologies

William A. Hachten, Harva Hachten

Ames: Iowa State University Press (1981), 133 pp.

"This book describes and analyzes the dramatically altered role of today's transnational news media in the technetronic age," says Hatchen, who probes how the current clashes and disputes over international communication between the West, the Socialist nations, and the Third World affect transnation ... more

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Mass Communication in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

William A. Hachten (comp.)

Madison, Wisconsin: Centre for International Communication Studies (1971), 121 pp.

"540 briefly annotated titles on different aspects of mass communication." (commbox)

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Muffled Drums: The News Media in Africa

William A. Hachten

Ames: Iowa State University Press (1971), xvii, 314 pp.

"Examination of the news media - newspapers, radio, television, magazines - in contemporary Africa, focusing on them as institutions, and describing their establishment, their effectiveness, and their relations with the government. Emphasis is on news and public information rather than cultural and ... more

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The Press in a One-Party State: The Ivory Coast under Houphouet

William A. Hachten

Journalism Quarterly, volume 44, issue 1 (1967), pp. 107-113

"The communication media in the Ivory Coast (a former French colony) are dominated by the President in an authoritarian tradition — There is only one daily and the radio is still the main source of information for the majority of the people." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of m ... more

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The Press in a One-Party State: Kenya since Independence

William A. Hachten

Journalism Quarterly, volume 42, issue 2 (1965), pp. 262-266

"The strongly liberal elements of the government of Kenya mean that the regime combines the characteristics of a ‘democracy’ and a ‘dictatorship’. The case of Kenya is an interesting one as regards the development of the communication media: Kenya has communication media but no public to use ... more

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Articles on Mass Communications: A selected annotated bibliography for October, November and December 1962

William A. Hachten, J. B. Adams

Journalism Quarterly, volume 40, issue 4 (1963), pp. 119-129

"Beginning with this issue, the [Journalism] Quarterly is combining the U.S. and foreign bibliographies which heretofore have appeared seapartely. Since the annotations give a brief summary of each article, we believe that the combined form will serve to make research studies from all over the world ... more