A Soviet analysis claims that the MacBride Report represents a serious contribution to the cause of placing information in the service of peace and progress. (PD)

Reporting of development news requires the journalist to examine, evaluate, and report the relevance of a development project to national and local needs. (JMF)

Discusses how American-Israeli relations are more influenced by news media reports than by a consistent American foreign policy. The mass media were manipulated so that Israeli military acts of self-defense were condemned as acts of agression. Menachem Begin's role as an irritant in efforts to establish peace in the Middle East is examined. (AM)

Argues that, contrary to what many proponents believe, the recommendations of the MacBride Report would also help stop the rapidly deteriorating military, diplomatic, and economic situation of the Anglo American countries from which the most important international communication flow originates. (PD)

Examines the international flow of news within the context of the national news agency of Yugoslavia, Tanjug, and its efforts and activity for a freer and multidimensional flow of news through its participation in the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool. (JMF)

Discusses the dependence of Latin American press on American news agencies with the result that the Latin American press presents an American point of view. (JMF)

Presents a brief preliminary observation of the Non-Aligned News Agency Pool and its relationship to other news services, evaluates its performance to date, and speculates on its future. (JMF)

Examines the key tenets of the MacBride Report and the critical response by scholars and journalists. Includes the text of the Declaration of Talloires adopted by journalists from 20 countries at the Voices of Freedom Conference, 1981. (PD)

Examines the role of United States' network television in international news coverage, and the influence of satellites and earth station locations on that coverage. Presents results of a study on the effects of international news, particularly from the Third World, on U.S. network television during the period 1972 through 1976. (JMF)

The shooting down of KAL Flight 007, a South Korean airliner, by a Soviet jet fighter, and the resulting deaths of the 269 people on board, has brought into focus the Reagan's administration's equivocal relationship with the Soviet Union, provided insights into the channels of power in the Soviet military hierarchy, and led other nations to…

The United States is a major exporter but a minor importer of films and television programs; this situation has been described as a one-way flow of information from the United States to other nations. Although the official United States position is one of dedication to the two-way flow of communication, the "majority" view is that the…

Reports news analysis material presented on a radio foreign affairs program between 1975 and 1979. Compares this report's findings with propositions generated by gatekeeper studies of international newsflow. Discusses how results do not sustain the argument that news offers an unchanging and unchangeable "world at one with itself." (JD)

Argues for a reordering of the present conception of world information transmission dominated by the developed nations and characterized by imbalances in the political, legal, and technico-financial spheres. (JMF)

The field of international telecommunications, especially that of direct broadcasting by satellite, has attracted increasing attention over the past decade. This aspect of communication technology has also become a part of the larger debate at the United Nations, Unesco, and the International Telecommunication Union concerning issues of access and…

Examines news coverage of the Soviet attack on KAL 007 (Korean Airlines Flight 007) that establishes and legitimizes Russia's viewpoint. Analyzes the twin processes of selection and structuring giving the text coherence. Notes that such cultural analysis challenges scholars to explore how the synchronization of government and media viewpoints…