Business
January, 1969
To hear people like George Wallace and even Richard J. Daley tell it, the medium is garbling the message. Squinting darkly through the burning-glass of prejudice, such citizens see not only television but every facet of the news media, in print or on the air, deliberately distorting the image of human events. The institution of a free press, the constitutional hinge on which the open society of America is supposed to swing, is on trial in the court of public opinion. There is a double-edged iron...
