ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about his personal experience in the New York, there were three great cases which dominated the media; and the media illustrate in their different ways what they have been trying to suggest about the communications culture. He refer to the two cases heard before the US courts which involved the libel suits of General William Westmoreland against CBS-Television and General Ariel Sharon against Time magazine. The third matter was the formidable series of articles which the New York Times published about New York City's chief Medical Examiner, whose apparent misdemeanors in a dozen incidents of murder made, when he read about them each day, in his hair stand on end. What all three cases have in common bears upon what he have been saying in trying to characterize the contemporary communications culture: that is the psychology of our leading Western publicists, the spirit of the public-spirited media, and the ethos of the adversarial protagonists.
