Indeed, local politicians appear to be just coming around to e-mail as a means of mass communication.

ECONOMIST: Local newspapers in peril

From the elements of mass pictorial communication employed by newspaper ads, comics and art-history tomes text bubbles, flat colors, outlined figures, Benday dots he could make pictures of pictures that were both illustrative and abstract.

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Critical national infrastructure also includes sectors such as financial services, government, mass communication, health, transport, and food and water - all of which are deemed necessary for delivering services upon which daily life in the UK depends.

BBC: UK infrastructure faces cyber threat, says GCHQ chief

Using the handle Flashboy, Ternovskiy soon mastered the art of the denial-of-service attack, wherein a target system is paralyzed by a mass of incoming communication requests.

NEWYORKER: Roulette Russian

In danger of falling on to the assembled mass, and after some heated communication between the CBI chief and the man in the roof - now joined by a friend - the PM was bundled off into a side room to deliver his speech cheek by jowl with the invited guests, and the constant interruptions of mobile phones, TV cameras, photographers, and noises off.

BBC: DETAILS OF TONIGHT'S PROGRAMME

But Mary-Lou Galician, head of media analysis and criticism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and editor of The Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media, is not so sure its working.

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