附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fax Basics -- What Fax Does -- How Facsimile Works -- Fax as a Tool for Home or Office -- Mail Delivery Changes in the 1990s -- From Drum Beats to Fax Beeps: Telecommunication Beginnings -- Ancient Telegraphy -- Water Telegraph -- Chappe's Optical Telegraph (Semaphore) -- Electrical Telegraphy -- Morse -- Facsimile Starts -- Bain -- Bakewell -- Caselli -- Photographs by Fax -- Korn -- Fax Development Problems -- Synchronization -- Telegraph and Telephone Lines -- Modulation -- After World War I -- Cable Fax -- Western Union -- RCA -- ATandT -- Early Fax Newsphoto Services -- Associated Press -- Acme -- New York Times -- World War II Era -- The Royal Tour -- The Plattsburg Maneuvers -- Military Fax (Ft. Monmouth) -- After World War II -- Fax Weather Map Broadcasting -- Remote Publishing -- Early Tests -- Newspaper-Page-Size Fax -- First Production Newspaper -- Newspapers by Fax -- High-Speed Fax -- Ultrafax -- Hogan Very High-Speed Facsimile System -- Xerox LDX -- A.B. Dick Videograph -- Matsushita Videofax -- Satellite Business Systems Batch Document System -- Radio Facsimile -- Connection to the PSTN -- Hush-A-Phone -- Dataphone -- Carterfone -- Bell Couplers -- FCC Part 68 Regulations -- Age of Incompatible Office Fax -- Group 1 Fax -- Group 2 Fax -- Development of Group 3 Standards -- Group 3 Facsimile -- Architecture -- Digital Image Compression -- Resolution and Pel Density -- One-Dimensional Coding Scheme: MH Code -- Two-Dimensional Coding Scheme: MR Code.
摘要:From the opening decades of the republic when political parties sponsored newspapers to current governmental practices that actively subsidize the collection and dissemination of the news, the press and the government have been far from independent. Unlike those earlier days, however, the news is no longer produced by a diverse range of individual outlets but is instead the result of a collective institution that exercises collective power. In explaining how the news media of today operate as an intermediary political institution, akin to the party system and interest group system, Cook demonstrates how the differing media strategies used by governmental agencies and branches respond to the constitutional and structural weaknesses inherent in a separation-of-powers system. -- Provided by publisher.
