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Article: Foreign Service Career Led to Books on TV, Communications
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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Wilson P. Dizard Jr., 87, a retired Foreign Service officer and
author who specialized in public affairs and telecommunications work
and became a consultant on communications and information policy,
died Aug. 31 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of hypertensive
cardiovascular disease.
In his State Department career from 1951 to 1980, Mr. Dizard
spent much of his time assigned to the U.S. Information Agency.
Based partly on his travels to South America, Africa and Asia, he
wrote one of his first books, "Television: A World View" (1966), a
study of how communications affect global societies.
He argued that as television became commonplace in even the
world's remotest villages, it was imperative ...