Introduction -- Dallas W. Smythe -- Interview with Dallas W. Smythe -- Against the Flow: The Peculiar Opportunity of Social Scientists -- "Critical" Communication Research: New Directions -- George Gerbner -- Interview with George Gerbner -- The Critical Contribution of George Gerbner -- Trying to Mix Oil with Water: Fund Raising, Vocationalism, and Critical Communication -- Herbert I. Schiller -- Interview with Herbert I. Schiller -- Herbert Schiller: Clarion Voice Against Cultural Hegemony -- Continuity and Change in Critical Communication: A Generational Analysis -- James D. Halloran -- Interview with James D. Halloran -- James D. Halloran: A Multi-Perspective Presentation -- Who Is (Not) "Critical" Now? On Engendering "Critical Scholarship" in International Communication -- Kaarle Nordenstreng -- Interview with Kaarle Nordenstreng -- Justice, Equality, and Professional Ethics in Journalism: Kaarle Nordenstreng's Actions and Reflections -- Political Versus Cultural in Critical Broadcasting Research and Policy: A Reevaluation of the Finnish Radical Experiment in Broadcasting in the Late 1960s.