Word: masmoudi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Tunisia's then Information Minister, Mustapha Masmoudi, presented a plan linking the new information order to the developing countries' demand for a new, more equitable international economic order. The Masmoudi scheme would have "balanced" the international news flow mainly by choking the Western press, with such measures as curbs on news-agency activities, controls on "abusive" access to news sources, and a "supranational organization" to enforce correction of "false" reporting...
There is good news and bad news in the MacBride recommendations. The good is that the commission members rejected the wilder extremes of the Masmoudi plan. Third World representatives went along with their Western colleagues in declaring that "censorship or arbitrary control of information should be abolished" and that "accurate, faithful and balanced reporting... necessarily involves access to unofficial as well as official sources of information." The only recorded dissent from these ringing endorsements of press freedom was that of the Soviet representative, Sergei Losev, director of TASS...