The Center for
the Study of Democratic
Institutions Audio Archive
The Media
Program 51: The Responsibilities of Television
Newton N. Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, suggests ways of improving the quality, variety, and coverage of...
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...
Program 71: Culture in Broadcasting: Do We Really Want It?
In conversation with Harry S. Ashmore, Zelman Cowen, of the University of Melbourne Law School, observes that so-called wastelands...
Program 72: The Literary Illiterates
The Center's Harry Ashmore and W. H. Ferry interview veteran publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who contrasts the contemporary literary scene...
Program 75: No Lamb for Slaughter
The Center's Frank K. Kelly discusses a broad range of topics with millionaire industrialist Edward Lamb, a director of the...
Program 95: Bureaucracy Is Not Muddling Through
Newton Minow, former FCC chairman, argues that the failure to adapt our institutions to ever more rapid change forces the...
Program 206: What Kind of World?
Robert M. Hutchins reads his weekly newspaper editorials. Includes discussion of: (1) FCC chairman Dean Birch; (2) President Nixon's television...
Program 227: A Look at the U.S. Press from Abroad
In this panel discussion, fifteen foreign journalists discuss their experiences working for American newspapers, and give their assessment of the...
Program 260: Blacklist: A Failure in Political Imagination
In this interviewed conducted by radio personality Dale Minor, screenwriter Millard Lampell and entertainer-commentator John Henry Faulk, both of...
Program 297: Too Much and Too Little: An Indictment of the Press
The Center's Donald McDonald analyzes both the reasons for and the consequences of the failure of the press to report...
Program 441: Beyond the Murk of Masskultur
Sociologist Bernard Rosenberg argues that television destroys our aesthetic discrimination, thereby dulling our capacity to either create or respond to...
Program 613: The National News Council -- A Solution?
In this panel discussion, the participants analyze the possibility of creating a private, independent organization charged with evaluating American media...
Program 614: The Right To Be Unfair
A discussion revolving around whether the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to be unfair, and what the proper relationship...
Program 615: Censorship by Manipulation
An examination of subtler forms of control over the press than overt government censorship, such as intimidation and manipulation through...
Program 616: National News, Local Control
A discussion in response to exiled South African journalist Ronald M. Segal's proposal in favor of local control over television...
Program 617: TV: The Exclusive Medium
In this panel discussion, the participants speculate on ways the television system could be made more accessible to the full...
Program 618: The Rise and Fall of Public Broadcasting
John W. Macy, Jr., former president of the Public Broadcasting Corporation, gives a step-by-step account of the process...
Program 662: The Human Factor in Government-Press Relations
A panel discussion that examines the quality of the people chosen to execute our foreign policy and their relationship with...
Program 738: Liberalism and the Media
The Center's Harry S. Ashmore talks about the longstanding tradition of liberalism in the South, as well as the distinguished...
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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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