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George Gerbner  

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  • George Gerbner was born in Hungary, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and became a U.S. citizen. He earned a BA degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942 and worked as a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle until enlisting in the Army during World War II. After the war, he earned an MA in 1951 and his PhD in 1955 from the University of Southern California. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Gerbner, George (1919–2005)]

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