Cowan tells about the first radio newsflash and Westinghouse Corporation's broadcasting of baseball games. As a result, cable television exercised a powerful, decentralizing force, creating new means by which independent points of view could be heard. The reasons for lack of control are threefold, according to Cowan. Technology and science now form a continuum. Cowan discusses the novelty of the birth control pill.
Every chapter has either a formal conclusion, or occasionally, an ending statement.
Each chapter has suggestions for further reading. The historian's conundrum of changing names is adeptly solved. The book is extremely well organized and evenly written, although the quantity of source material necessarily varies. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list.