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The IPDC: UNESCO vs. the Free Press
Publication Date: March 1983
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Thomas G. Gulick
Series: Backgrounder
Topic: International relations (International and regional organizations)
Media, telecommunications, and information (Journalism and the news)
Keywords: International organizations
Type: Report
Abstract:
With a strong Western policy for free market communications development instead of damage control, the U.S. and the West can forge a strategy to ensure that Third World states acquire modern communications technology and a free press and that free, independent journalists have fair access to information and audiences. If UNESCO wants to oppose these goals and champion the state controlled press, the U.S. may not be able to stop it. But there is no need for the U.S. to be an accomplice.