"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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"Gallagher has brought together research results culled from hundreds of worldwide reports (many of them in mimeographed forms), articles, fugitive materials, and a lesser number of books (which are much scarcer), to address certain basic questions about the relationship between women and the media.
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The questions: What are the issues? What do we know already? What has been done so far? What remains to be done? She has then related her findings to the needs and possibilities of action. One of the most valuable features of the book is the bibliography of her materials. Appendixes list international feminist publications; directories and guidebooks; seminar proceedings and reports; groups and organizations; formats for media analysis; and the list of references previously mentioned." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 134)
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"Sam Kotei’s book was one of the first major in-depth studies on the state of the book and publishing in Africa, in which the author looked back on a decade of special efforts to alleviate the “acute shortage of books” identified at the UNESCO
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meeting on books in Accra in 1968. The author notes that progress was uneven and that many of the problems identified in 1968 still remained, although African publishing had generally made “impressive strides”. The author surveyed the available literature, questioned writers, publishers, printers, libraries, bookshops, national book development councils, and interviewed book industry professional in several African countries in order to produce this overview of the situation in the 1970s and 1980s. Concludes with an examination of the future prospects of the book industry in Africa. Kotei’s book remains a seminal study, not least for purposes of comparison as it relates to the growth of the African book industries since the 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 290)
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"Much of the writings about the New World Information Order (NWIO) is heated, with rhetoric by the Western industrialized nations and the Third World countries governed by their differing viewpoints in the context of their disparate pasts and conflicting philosophies. McPhail approaches the debate w
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ith delicate balance, discussing the objectives of the NWIO, freedom of the press, media and development research traditions (which he calls "a misguided start"), the role of UNESCO, International Telecommunications Union and the World Administration Radio Conference, wire service, DBS and related international issues, and the MacBride Report. An appendix charts the ideological alignments of developing countries in terms of "radical," "conservative" or "independent" political orientations. A second appendix contains the text of the "Draft Declaration on Fundamental Principles Concerning the Contribution of the Mass Media in Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, the Promotion of Human Rights, and to Countering Racialism, Apartheid and Incitement to War." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 716)
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"During International Women's Year in 1975 one of the problems studied was the role of women vis-a-vis the media. This slim book approaches the problem eclectically: Part I. "Inquiry on Participation of Women in Radio, Television and Film in Four Countries (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and Unit
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ed States)" by Jerzy Toeplitz, Director of the Australian Film and Television School, and Part II. "Women in Cinema," the account of a symposium in which women film workers from many different countries exchanged views on practical and theoretical considerations." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 845)
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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 stu
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dy the totality of Communication problems in modern 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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"A part of UNESCO's efforts within the framework of the International Year of the Child, this small book is both an explanation of standard book publishing procedures intended for the uninitiated in the Third World and, more instructively and interestingly to the initiated, discussions by Third Worl
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d citizens who work with children's books as to the state of the children's book publishing industry in their countries. Trade and educational books are considered. In conclusion is a bibliography of the works mentioned." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1090)
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"This case study of Iran focuses on those indicators crucial to an understanding of an evolving communication system. These include environmental factors such as population, geography, history, and legal and social systems; data on national development objectives, resources and technologies; communi
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cation structures - the press, broadcasting, printing and publishing, film, advertising, telecommunications, theater, tapes and records, libraries and documentation centers, data publication, and storage and retrieval systems; and communication policies for gathering, processing and distributing information. Organized at a time of revolutionary change in Iran, it focuses primarily on the prerevolutionary period and includes only brief references to the major post-revolution developments." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 425)
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