"The author reviews the present and foreseeable influence of newspapers, radio and television respectively on the people of Black Africa — He emphasises the success of those periodicals which concentrate on local news as well as the important part played by the increasing numbers of transistor set
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s in the interior — This could prove very important in the field of economic development, provided there is good programming of broadcasts from the stations in the capitals or important urban centres — However there is still a long way to go before Africa, Asia and Latin America are brought into line with the more developed nations in all the fields of modern information." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 515, topic code 172, 262, 452)
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"Study of the use of the mass media by the "elites" of eleven Latin American countries, based on interviews with the people who made up the sample — After describing the results of their studies the authors conclude by stressing the fact that the people involved in the study (members of the wealth
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y bourgeoisie of the Latin American capitals) are few in numbers and in all cases are non-privileged as regards the communication media, despite the fact that their countries are underdeveloped — generally — in the field of communications." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 622, topic code 04)
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