Osmo Antero Wiio

Finnish communications professor, journalist and Member of Parliament (1928-2013) · Finland · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

Osmo Antero Wiio was a Finnish academic, journalist, author and member of the Finnish Parliament. He is best known for his somewhat facetious Wiio's laws around communication, succinctly summarized as "Communication usually fails, except by accident".

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