Despite the gloomy pronouncements about the future of the media, many opportunities exist at this crossroads toward a new and perhaps better form of communications. This book collects the work of some of the finest minds who want to make the media better rather than to focus on the good old days of the mavens telling the public what it should know. The media remain important in today s society, although the media are changing rapidly driven by a desire for readers and viewers to play a more significant role in the information they receive. Multimedia endeavors have pushed aside the narrow...

This book focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969, entering the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas.