In this panel discussion, the participants analyze the possibility of creating a private, independent organization charged with evaluating American media performance in order to assure responsible and accurate television news, an approach that has been tried in other countries. Featuring Harry S. Ashmore, Lloyd Cutler, Eduard Goldstücker, Robert M. Hutchins, Donald McDonald, Paul Porter, Lord Ritchie-Calder, Richard Salant, Eric Sevareid, and Roger Traynor. Broadcasting and the First Amendment IV. 1 tape. [Transcript 5:3]. [LC 74-760631].

The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Political and academic leaders, scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, theologians, labour and community leaders focused on topics such as peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration, international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, and religion. Prominent participants included Senator Alan Cranston, Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, Aldous Huxley, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sander Vanocur, and Gunner Myrdal among many others.