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common among politicians as among political scientists. For
example, in oral Russia both Pravda and Izvestia handle
domestic news, but the big international themes come to the
West over Radio Moscow. In visual America, radio and television
handle the domestic stories, and international affairs get their
formal treatment in Time magazine and The New York Times .
As a foreign service, the bluntness of Voice of America in no
way compares to the sophistication of the BBC and Radio
Moscow, but what it lacks in verbal content it makes up in the
entertainment value of its American jazz. The implications of
this difference of stress are important for an understanding of
the kinds of opinions and decisions natural to an oral, as
opposed to a visual, culture.
A friend of mine who tried to teach something about the
forms of media in secondary school was struck by one