Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the Third World's most accurate complaint is that the West dominates the world flow of communications, principally through the hegemony of the so-called Big Four (A.P., U.P.I., Reuters and Agence France Press). A study this year of 14 Asian newspapers made for the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University showed the Big Four accounted for 76% of Third World news in those papers. Western dominance, however, is more a matter of economics than conscious conspiracy. International cable rates discriminate against small national news agencies and other low-volume users...
Whatever happens next in the news-flow dispute, the Third World countries have already achieved some major goals. They have made the West aware of their displeasure with slapdash coverage of their affairs. They have pried pledges of equipment and training from the West. Perhaps most important, and most disturbing, they have realized that they can, in the words of one specialist, "pull the plugs anywhere" in the international communications system...
...West has yet to make clear to them is that press freedom need not be incompatible with national development, that government-dictated news is no more believable in the Third World than elsewhere and that any "new world information order" should be blessed with fewer government curbs on the flow of news, not more. As the 20th Century Fund's task force concluded: "The practices of a free press may be erratic, even in the West, but the aspirations of freedom should ultimately serve to unite the West and the Third World...
...vicinity of church steeples and near the wing and propeller tips of aircraft, St. Elmo's fire occurs when strong electrical fields are created in the atmosphere. If atmospheric voltage rises high enough, as under a thunderhead, the electrical resistance of the air breaks down and electrons flow from such pointed objects as a ship's mast, agitating nearby air molecules to produce a strong coronal light...
...next big test of Carter's determination to keep up the anti-inflation campaign despite the troubles it is bound to cause will be how much he can hold down federal spending and stem the flow of budgetary red ink. In January the Administration will send Congress proposals for small cuts designed to knock as much as $3 billion off the $39 billion deficit now forecast for fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. Over the weekend, as an earnest of his anti-inflationary intentions, Carter vetoed bills that in effect would have limited imports of low-priced beef and textiles...