A Singular Power: An Essay on American Television News

A first-hand account of what happened when eighteen young French, German and Belgian journalists, most of them from the broadcast media, spent twelve days visiting the world of television news in the U.S. The visitors met a rich sampling of those who shape the character of American news and public-affairs programming. In sponsoring this event, the French-American Foundation and the Aspen Institute hoped that the visiting journalists would take back to their countries a healthy sense of the relative freedom from government interference that the U.S. television news organizations enjoy and strive to preserve. Co-published with the Aspen Institute.