"The lack of mass media on a world scale — Africa at the bottom of the ladder — In Asia only Japan can be considered to be "developed" in the field of the mass media — The case of the countries of Latin America." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1415, topic code 070)