Macbride Report

Macbride Report

Many Voices One World
An analysis of the MacBride Report

By Shraddha Sankhe
Roll number: 009
Garware Institute of Career Education and Development
Post Graduate Diploma in Communication and Journalism
Many Voices One World: An Analysis of the MacBride Report
This report on the MacBride Report aims to give the reasons why the report did have a present-day relevance in the Internet aided-text message enabled- 4G networked World.   Although considered controversial, the heated discussions on the World Wide Web, books and live arguments among communication stalwarts, the MacBride Report has emerged to be the first ever world-report to have UNESCO support in matters of communication and the problems related to international relations and internal conflicts. The 1979 report has had 16 committee members from all over the world researching the plethora of considerable means of communications; possible outcomes of analysis and the most probable flak that was yet to be received with the New Order they conjured up to. Here is a report on the same:
The background of inception:
Amadau-Mahtar M’Bow (Director-General of UNESCO) was instructed in the 19th session of the UNESCO General Conference in Nairobi to undertake a review of all the problems of communication with relation to complexities and magnitude of technological advance and international affairs. He appointed the Irish Nobel Laureate Sean MacBride as the President of International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems. Several big brains from countries like USA, France, USSR, India, Nigeria, Egypt, the Netherlands, Canada, and Chile etc. were appointed in the important research work.
The MacBride report and the study per se took over two years to complete a thorough research. Two months went only to draft a final report. Precisely, eight sessions in a span of 24 months are the meetings that took place of the committee of people coming from different hemispheres, regions and latitudes.
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