World : Global News Flow ‘Unfair’: Suharto
The global flow of news serves only wealthy countries and harms developing nations’ interests, Indonesian President Suharto said today.
“This is definitely unfair and we have to rectify it,” he said, opening the first conference of information ministers of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations.
Advanced countries are flooded with news that is “destroying the image of developing countries.” The struggle to correct this “represents the one being waged for the creation of Southeast Asia as a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality,” he said.
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