Description:
Professor Rutherford charts the growth of the daily press, describing personalities and events. He surveys the cultural prerequisites for mass communications and looks at the personnel, business routines, and worries of the new industry.
Brief description:
Paul Rutherford is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books published by UTP, including When Television Was Young (1990), The New Icons? (1994), Endless Propaganda (2000), Weapons of Mass Persuasion (2004), and World Made Sexy (2007).