Word: unesco
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...nation meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Belgrade vented their complaints against the Western press, demanding a "new information order" that would give them greater control over international reporting of their affairs. Last week the Third World nations used their numerical superiority in UNESCO to move that new order closer to reality...
...Western European delegates objected vehemently to the idea that UNESCO ought to establish standards for news operations. The U.S. representative, Stanford University Professor Elie Abel, told the conference that UNESCO should not become "an international nanny." Nonetheless, UNESCO Director General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal was authorized to begin "promptly" studying "basic principles" for a new order...
Also approved were several controversial UNESCO research projects on the press, including studies into advertising and media financing, codes of press ethics and measures to "protect" journalists, a euphemism for licensing them. Those undertakings are favored by advocates of the new order but are seen by critics as threats to press freedom...
...long and sometimes bitter negotiations in Belgrade, U.S. and European representatives successfully stood their ground on two important points. One involved funding and control of UNESCO's newly established International Program for the Development of Communication. This organization will help channel Western communications assistance (both governmental and private) in the communications field to Third World countries. In a compromise resolution on UNESCO's much debated MacBride report-a global communications study by a panel of experts under the chairmanship of former Irish Prime Minister Sean MacBride-the West also fought off Third World attempts to exploit the report...
...year ago, a California gathering of newspaper editors was asked how many knew about the new information order; only two out of 282 editors raised their hands. But the battle over the UNESCO proposals is not just a matter for the trade. At stake, ultimately, is the right of readers, radio listeners and television viewers everywhere to be properly informed about the world around them; for the developing and industrial countries alike to learn about one another without hindrance...