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Program 59: Communication in a Democracy

Journalist Frank McCulloch warns that, due to the growing magnitude and complexity of local, national, and international problems, the task of communication on the part of the professional journalist and of absorption and understanding on the part of the citizen may well be insurmountable, thus weakening one of the main underpinnings of democracy. Spring 1963. [CSDI program number 59; UCSB tape numbers A7574/R7, A7575/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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