"This report concludes that there are major threats in Europe’s media landscape. Some of the threats identified are political and private threats to public service broadcasting, power over global media in the hands of few, more and more media concentration, the threat to emerging markets in Easter
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n and Central Europe and regulation getting weaker as media power grows." (Summary of findings, page 4)
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"[...] this issue of the Journal features a symposium of communication scholarship with Latin America as its focus. The symposium was suggested and skillfully brought to fruition by Elizabeth Fox, a Washington, D .C.-based communication policy researcher with broad contacts and experience in Latin A
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merica. As Dr. Fox notes in her introduction, this symposium shows how Latin American scholars are “concerned with basic issues of democratization and equality, while searching for new paths of scientific analysis, policy relevance, and social application.” Those values (democracy and equality) and those goals (policy relevance and social applications) are particularly pronounced in Latin American scholarship. But I would argue that they are also well worth some serious thought by all of us who work as communication researchers and who would like to see what we do make a positive difference in the world." (Editor's note)
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"A UNESCO report headed by Sean MacBride of Ireland in which representatives from Canada, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Tunisia, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Zaire were mandated "to study the totality of Communication problems in modern
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society" in order to formulate "a more just and more efficient world information and communication order," keeping in mind particularly the differences among nations in culture and resources. The result of this hard, if not impossible, charge to reconcile divergent viewpoints represents a compromise which can wholly please none of the three worlds, but it does offer a wide-ranging investigation with varying viewpoints. Appendixes include a list of international organizations active in communications, and there are, in addition, a list of about 100 available background papers. Index. For a discussion of the report giving some of its strengths and weaknesses see 'Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "MacBride Report"', edited by Cees J. Hamelink. A 244-page paperback abridgement, 'Many Voices, One World', was published in 1984 by UNESCO." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 210)
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"1) Concentration de la propriété des moyens d'information — 2) L'influence de certains groupes qui exercent une pression sur la presse, la radio et la télévision — Information photographique d'une semaine — La « chronique rouge » (faits divers), et les pages sportives." (Jean-Marie Van
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Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1893, topic code 110.5, 142)
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"Discussion sur les tendances monopolistes de la presse indienne — Problèmes linguistiques — Revendications des journalistes." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 446, topic code 110.1, 142)
"Estudio cuantitativo de los diarios más importantes de América Latina - estudio de la concentración de diarios y su distribución en zonas urbanas y rurales." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1779, topic code
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110.0)
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"In order to satisfy President Nehru's concern over the concentration of the press, the association of journalists declares its readiness to take countermeasures, such as a press council and some form of support for the local press." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media i
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n the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2340, topic code 142)
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