The Lengthening Wire

Cable Television Report and Order (FCC 72-108, 74710, adopted February 2, 1972) Monroe Price and John Wicklein's Cable Television: A Guide for Citizen Action (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1505 Race St., 1972—$5.95/2.95) Charles Tate (ed.) Cable Television in the Cities: Community Control, Public Access, and Minority Ownership (Washington: The Urban Institute, 2100 M St., N.W., 1972—$3.95, paper) Leland L. Johnson, Cable Television and Higher Education: Two Contrasting Experiences (Memorandum R-828-M2) September 1971 54 pp. $3.00 Michael R. Mitchell, State Regulation of Cable Television (Memorandum R-783-MF) October 1971 76 pp. $3.00 Rolla Edward Park, Prospects for Cable in the 100 Largest Television Markets (Memorandum R-875-MF) October 1971 47 pp. $2.00 Herbert S. Dordick and Jack Lyle, Access by Local Political Candidates to Cable Television: A Report of an Experiment (Memorandum R-881-MF) November 1971 35 pp. $2.00 Walter S. Baer, Interactive Television: Prospects for Two-Way Services on Cable (Memorandum R-888-MF) November 1971 105pp. $4.00 L.L. Johnson, W. S. Baer, R. Bretz, D. Camph, N.E. Feldman, R.E. Park, and R.K. Yin, Cable Communications in the Dayton Miami Valley: ,Basic Report (Memorandum R-943-KF/FF) January 1972 557 pp. $5.00 Leland L. Johnson, Study Director, Cable Communications in the Dayton Miami Valley: Summary Report (Memorandum R-942-KF/FF) January 1972 56 pp. $3.00 Mary Alice Mayer's CATV: A History of Community Antenna Television (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1972) Frederick Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent (New York: Kenikat Press, $12.50) Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson (eds) All in Color for A Dime (New York: Ace, 1971—$1.50, paper) George Perry and Alan Aldridge The Penguin Book of Comics (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971— $4.95 paper) William L. Rivers (surely one of the more prolific writers in the media text field) Free-Lancer and Staff Writer: Writing Magazine Articles (Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth, 1972—$6.50) F.B. Marbut's News From the Capital: The Story of Washington Reporting (Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971—$12.50)