Download or read book Mass Media in Revolution and National Development written by Peter Gross and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature and influence of the news media in Romania before, during, and after the December 1989 revolution, concentrating on print and broadcast news media and their struggle to remake themselves and remake society. Covers the precommunist legacy, foreign mass media as a spark for the revolution, media laws in the noncommunist era, neutrality and objectivity in journalism, and news media in the presidential and parliamentary elections of the 1990s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR