A.
He is widely credited as the single most important definer of U.S. mass communication studies of his day.
B.
His career had been closely bound up with U.S. intelce and clandestine psychological operations since at least the late 1930s.
C.
In the 1950s, he became activist supporters of U.S. psychological ware projects and derived part of their income from participation in such efforts over a period of at least two decades.
D.
His work during the first decade after World War II focused on elaborating Lippmann's concept of the stereotype-the "pictures in our heads".
E.
Shortly after the opening of the Korean War in 1950, he was sent by the U.S. air force to Korea to interview anticommunist refugees and to study U.S. psychological operations.
F.
During the 1950s, his personal income and professional prestige Bibliographic Essay were to a significant degree dependent upon his work for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Information Agency, Department of Defense, and the CIA sponsored propaganda organization Radio Free Europe.
G.
He is the author of The Process and Effects of Mass Communication, which is widely regarded as a founding text of graduate mass communication studies in the United States.