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The International Communications System

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Abstract

In the whole non-communist world the determining factor in broadcasting development, since the 1950s, has been the expansion of the American communications system. This has to be understood in two related stages: the formation, in the United States, of a complex military, political and industrial communications system; and then, in direct relation to this, the operation of this system to penetrate the broadcasting systems of all other available states.*

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Williams, R. (1983). The International Communications System. In: Asad, T., Owen, R. (eds) The Middle East. Sociology of “Developing Societies”. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17282-5_8

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