The prospects for a fortress society in America

Abstract

John Crothers Pollock (B.A., Swarthmore; M.P.A., Syracuse; Ph.D., Stanford) taught political science, sociology, and mass communications at Rutgers University and at Queens College, City University of New York. He spent one year at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, completed surveys in India and Latin America, and is currently a research associate of the Journalism Resources Institute at Rutgers. Dr. Pollock served as director of the Latin American Institute at Rutgers and as the first chairman of the Committee on the U.S. Press and Latin America of the Latin American studies Association. He has received several grants from the Social Science Research Council and has published articles on political socialization, mass media and politics, and mass media and social change in scholarly journals and books. He is the author of The Politics of Crisis Reporting: Learning to Be a Foreign Corresponding , published by Praeger, a division of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, in 1981. Dr. Pollock is currently director of research, Research & Forecasts, Inc., a New York based survey research organization.