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Who's to Know?
Information, the Media, and Public Awareness
By Weiss, Ann E.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39549-702-9
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1990
Gr 6-10 Contrasting the control of information in countries such as China and South Africa with that in the United States, Weiss indicates that the democratic form of government and the Constitution offer no guarantee to Americans of the "right to know." The suppression of news of the 1970 earthquake in China until 1988 was surpassed only by the report, also in 1988, that radioactive waste had been released in Ohio in 1951. In this case and at other times, govern...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
