"In the debate between the developing and developed world over the function and structure of the mass media, this collection consolidates and interprets primary findings of an international study funded by the U.S.I.A. that analyzes content and dissemination of foreign news by the mass media of 17 T
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hird World countries and the four major Western news agencies. Among contributors are the editors, Richard Cole, Kirsten Thompson, Gary Gaddy, J. Walker Smith, Anne Cooper, Emmanuel Paraschos, David Weaver, Cleve Wilhoit, Jere Link, Robert Haynes, Jr. and Thomas Ahern, Jr." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 418)
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"In the mid-1970s News Agencies of Non-Aligned Countries joined in a cooperative system which they called the Pool for the purpose of strengthening mutual relations by an information exchange system and by other actions which would increase the quality and quantity of information through technologic
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al means, training of personnel, reduction of tariffs, and other appropriate measures. Here the Committee has brought together documents, declarations and decisions which concern context and style of Pool news, the progress of the Pool over the years, and its plans for future development, including its role within a New International Information Order. Bibliography and list of documents." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 731)
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"Fallstudie zu Inter Press Service und Agence France Press als Nachrichtenquellen über Afrika, orientiert an dependenztheoretischen Modellen." (commbox)
"Country chapters identify and describe major and selected specialized newspapers and mass circulating magazines. Tables provide basic information for the dailies. Each chapter also carries a discussion of press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitudes toward foreign media. Detailed su
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bject, title, and personal name index." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood Press, 1992, nr. 5522)
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"This is a survey of the state of the press in 180 countries, organized in four sections: Section I, "The International Press"; Section II, "The World's Developed Press Systems"; Section III, "Smaller and Developing Press Systems, " and Section IV, " Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems." Covera
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ge is alphabetical by country within the sections. Discussions and data for the various countries in the first three sections are under the following headings: "Basic Data: Background and General Characteristics"; "Economic Framework"; "Press Law"; "Censorship"; "State Press Relations"; "Attitude Toward Foreign Media"; "News Agencies"; "Electronic News Media"; "Education and Training"; and in conclusion "Summary," with a discussion of trends and prospects; followed by "Chronology." Preceding each country is a table of basic data, and following it a bibliography. Section IV, "Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems," treats each country briefly in tabular form. Appendixes list 50 of the best known daily newspapers, the news agencies of the world, selected periodicals dealing with the press, media multinationals, press-related associations, unions and organizations, advertising expenditures, radio transmitters and receivers, and television transmitters and sets." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 239)
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"A quantitative content analysis in which Schramm and Atwood focus on the flow of news into and out of the Third World, with emphasis on the four Western news agencies - Reuter, the Associated Press, United Press International, and Agence France Presse. Part of the project measures quantity of news,
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part quality. Appendixes give basic data. In conclusion is a list of references used." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 390)
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"It would be a mistake to imagine that reporting from southern Africa is a special case. One of the points that must be made is that newsagency correspondents are expected to and expect to be able to report in many different types of social, political and economic situations. This was certainly a po
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int expressed to the author by the agency correspondents working in southern Africa. While clearly this is essential if the newsmen are to carry out their jobs, it is also fraught with problems. It means that the world is reduced to a unidimensionality which it does not have. Different situations demand different treatments. However, realization of this must also be accompanied by an awareness of the particular types of official control practised by the southern African regimes. This control impinges directly upon the newsmen stationed in southern Africa, in a manner that affects the types of output they are able to produce. As outsiders looking in upon the world of journalism, we are perfectly entitled to criticize the ways in which the agency newsmen operate in situations we find personally abhorrent. As outsiders looking in, however, we must not lose sight of the very severe constraints placed upon these newsmen by regimes determined to control the flow of news and information both to and from their countries." (Conclusion, page 144)
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"The major conclusion is that information flows are far more strongly influenced and oriented first by historical and cultural links, including those remaining from colonial times, then by ideological affinities and lastly by community of interests, than they are by geographical proximity. This is n
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o surprise but may at first sight appear unfortunate, Less than twenty per cent of the news space in the South Americar, dailies, for example, is given over to Latin America, and the Senegalese press shows greater interest in a minor ministerial reshuffle in France or the Federal Republic of Germany than in an election taking place in the Gambia or the Ivory Coast." (Introduction)
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"A systematic inquiry into world news agencies, with a focus on the relationship between those of the developed and developing world. Boyd-Barrett examines the four major Western-based news agencies in particular - Reuters, the Associated Press, United Press International and Havas Agence France Pre
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ss - in their dual role as both national and world news agencies, discussing their history, ownership, control, revenues, resources and range of services. The book shows that while the news agencies' role in the Third World is an important issue, it must also be seen in relation to their viability in their own developed world and points out the various pitfalls involved in the delivery of international news. All in all, this is one of the best possible sources for a critical examination of news agencies and their service role and for an explanation of the production of news, itself a fragile commodity." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 42)
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"An analysis of news agencies as part of the information system, by journalists from the Eastern Bloc countries." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 314)
"Robinson discusses the development and operation of the press and broadcasting, against the background of the sociopolitical factors that have shaped this multinational, multilingual Communist state. She details the history of communications from 1945 to 1975; analyzes the national news agency, Tan
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jug; examines the way in which characteristic news values have evolved; and describes the role of the media in nation-building in a country with widely diverse ethnic groups. In conclusion she explores the composition of readers, listeners, and viewers. Appendixes give the journalism code, the content of three geographical foreign policy registers (1964), and a comparison of overlapping subject master in Tanjug and the Associated Press." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 361)
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