world of the seamless web of events, most affairs must be kept 
secret. Top secrecy is translated into public participation and 
responsibility by the magic flexibility of the controlled news 
leak.

     It is by this kind of ingenious adaptation from day to day 
that Western man is beginning to accommodate himself to the 
electric world of total interdependence. Nowhere is this 
transforming process of adaptation more visible than in the 
press. The press, in itself, presents the contradiction of an 
individualistic technology dedicated to shaping and revealing 
group attitudes.

     It might be well now to observe how the press has been 
modified by the recent developments of telephone, radio, and 
TV. We have seen already that the telegraph is the factor that