Subject: Medium/control From: CurtMonash@aol.com Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:09:34 -0400

Vigdor writes, quoting authority, that control of a medium is top-down.  I
have trouble understanding that well enough to agree with or dispute it, so
I'd appreciate clarification in the context of revolutionary communications.
 Examples I'm thinking of include:

1.  Broadsheets, pamplets, newspapers etc. in the 18th Century American
colonies.
2.  Khomieni's (spelling? How time flies!) audiotaped speeches from exile,
widely distributed in Iran in the 1970s.

I'd also appreciate a clarification in the context of today's newsletter
industry, a $1 or $2 billion business with a zillion small publishers.  Most
of it is pro-business, anti-government (the core of the industry are
regulation-tracking letters), but there are plenty of exceptions, and
certainly very little organization or coordination.

Curt Monash, Ph.D.
Publisher
Monash Software Letter
CurtMonash@aol.com or cmonash@mcimail.com

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