ABSTRACT
If one speaks today about communication, one is almost forced into a controversy over the mass media. The media are, of course, merely the instruments of possible communication—they are the tools our technology has developed and whose right application is in question. Technology has extended our access to the world as never before. Yet despite telephones, radios, television, increased literacy, expanded circulation of books, newspapers, and periodicals we are lonelier than ever before—and certainly our common human need for world peace seems further removed than ever. Deterioration of our intellectual and moral heritage has not only accompanied the quantitative growth of mass media in modern society but has been a result as well. It is my contention that an awareness of these problems is essential to the preservation of the dignity and growth of the individual.
