Toward A New Information Order
UnpublishedJuly/August
1982
Volume:
16
Number:
4
Article
I could be wrong, but never in my long life have I seen such a disastrous economic situation. Chile's Cardinal Raul Silva Enriquez quoted in the Wall Street Journal, January 18, 1982.
The calm facade of Costa Rica is rapidly wearing thin. This year's February 7th elections, which swept Luis Alberto Monge to a landslide victory on a 77% turnout, appeared to confirm ticos' faith in the resilience of their political institutions.
Communications is not just news. It is a determining factor of all social processes and a fundamental component of the way societies are organized.
In the final analysis, one has to interpret freedom [of expression] not only as the absence of censorship, but as the creation of opportunities. -Director-General of Radio All-India No one would entrust chickens to a fox's care.
NACLA On The Air There's been no absence of important developments in El Sal- vador this summer, such as the burial of land reform, continuing disappearances and human rights abuse and, of course, the escalating war between Salva- dorean Army troops (aided by U.S.
MASS MEDIA Robert N. Pierce, Keeping The Flame-Media and Govern- ment in Latin America (Hastings House, Publishers, 1979).
The rhetoric and the resolutions that are being adopted [at the Sri Lanka conference] will be excessive, unilateral and are already known..
We must reaffirm our national cultural identity and eliminate the persistent consequences of the colonial era. In particular, that means the channels of information which are a legacy of the colonial past.
Communication should promote a two-way flow of information if the world is not to be divided into producers, on the one hand, and passive consumers of information, on the other. UNESCO resolution, 18th General Conference Conclusions reached in Algeria in Sep- tember 1973, and adoption of the term "cul- tural imperialism" referred to at the outset, become more intelligible when one appreciates the long and painful struggle to arrive at these understandings and reach consensus about how to articulate them.