ABSTRACT
There is now more of an immediacy to our experience of distant events. And there is a sharing of this experience. Radio and television has helped to create a shared world view and brought into play a major new force in world affairsworld public opinion. World public opinion can be mobilized to release political prisoners, undermine governments, legitimize opposition groups and give hope and help to beleaguered groups. For the first time in the world history the collective opinion of ordinary people has a role to play in global events.
