Book Reviews -- Media and Revolution Edited by Jeremy D. Popkin

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Popkin, Jeremy D., ed. Media and Revolution. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 256 pp. $29.95.

The pairing of the words "media" and "revolution" in a book title is exciting for those of us who ponder the political effects of mass communication. What better test is there of the media's power to threaten authorities, as the discontented dream and the satisfied feat, than their presence in the avant garde of attempts to upheave the political, social and economic order?

As long as journalism history in the United States limited itself to occurrences on this continent, there was only one true revolution available to study (although the word "revolution" has been …