A discussion in response to exiled South African journalist Ronald M. Segal's proposal in favor of local control over television program content. Featuring Harry S. Ashmore, Lloyd Cutler, James Loper, Fred Warner Neal, Lawrence Rogers, Antonin Scalia, Eric Sevareid, and Thomas H. Wolf. Broadcasting and the First Amendment VII. 1 tape. [Transcript 5:6]. [LC 74-760432]

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