[Media-watch] FW: New on WACCs website:

[David Miller]

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From: sh at wacc.org.uk
Reply-To: sh at wacc.org.uk
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:01:42 +0000
To: sh at wacc.org.uk
Subject: New on WACCs website:

New on WACC's website:


*** Another Media Empresario for President? The Case of El Salvador ***
The history of the "media-politics" relationship isn't alien to Central
America, much less El Salvador where the media have long played an important
role in local political life. The alliance of the mainstream Salvadorean
media with the right-wing has characterised the last 15 years of this
relationship, with the ARENA party staying in power thanks to the strength
of support from the television, radio and press. The last three presidential
elections have shown the ARENA candidate ten times more than the opposition,
not only in advertisements, but in interviews, profiles and news coverage.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1506


*** The World Forum on Communication Rights ***
Myriam Horngren, Advocacy and Network Coordinator for CRIS at WACC, reflects
on the World Forum for Communication Rights, which dealt with issues that
many hoped WSIS might have dealt with, and on the challenges ahead for
communication activists.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1505


*** Failure and Success at the WSIS: Civil Society's next moves ***
Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS: www.crisinfo.org )
is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the
Information Society and to the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS). The campaign is located in the WACC offices in London. Seán
O'Siochrú, Spokesperson for the CRIS Campaign,  gives a review of the
process 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1504


***  Haiti: Wanting to Change Movies ***
By Gotson Pierre. Freedoms are under threat in Haiti, a country whose
struggle for independence from France two hundred years ago under the slogan
"Freedom, Equality, Fraternity" has become mythical.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1503


*** AMARC takes to the airwaves at World Social Forum ***
As the World Social Forum (WSF) meets this week in Mumbai,  India, the World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is giving civil society
a voice by providing live broadcasts from the summit. Community broadcasters
from around the world, including Chile, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India, are
collaborating to produce the live broadcast under the banner "Another
Communication is Possible!"
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1463


*** Gender and Photojournalism in Southern Africa ***
'Picture Our Lives' a manual for media trainers has been published in a
joint initiative of the Southern African Media Services Organisation (SAMSO)
and Gender Links (GL), two regional NGOs that promote professional
excellence in photojournalism as well as the attainment of gender equality
in and through the media.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1462


*** WACC-Supported Programme Wins International Award. 'A Society For All'
***
By Maria Teresa Aguirre. The WACC-supported  TV campaign 'Pode ser melhor'
(It Can Be Better) and pilot TV programme 'Pode ser melhor ainda' (It Can Be
Even Better) of the Brazilian NGO COMULHER on the rights of disabled people
have won first prize in the professional category of the competition 'A
Society for All', organised by the Colombian digital news agency DISNNET.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1451


*** Information Vs Communication: Where is the Power in the Information
Society? ***
Latin American communicators reflect on this pressing issue and elect a new
Regional Executive Committee. By Maria Teresa Aguirre. "We cannot
disassociate information from communication.  Neither can we prioritise one
over the other.  If communication has to do more with the type of society we
want than with pure technological aspects, then we need to ensure that we
encourage communicational demands among the people".  This is a complex and
huge task - declared the Peruvian communicator and academic, Rosa María
Alfaro speaking at the XI Regional Assembly of the Latin American Region of
WACC (WACC-LA). 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1450


*** Going Beyond the Digital Divide Orthodoxy ***
By Frederick Noronha, Third World Network Features. It's fashionable, it
sounds good, and it's politically correct too. But this grandiloquent term
'digital divide' is just a catch-phrase, hardly touches the root of the
problem and is-to someone in the Third World-so obviously hypocritical.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1460


*** AMARC takes to the airwaves at World Social Forum ***
As the World Social Forum (WSF) meets this week in Mumbai,  India, the World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is giving civil society
a voice by providing live broadcasts from the summit. Community broadcasters
from around the world, including Chile, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India, are
collaborating to produce the live broadcast under the banner "Another
Communication is Possible!"
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1463


*** Unity saving the people ***
Although we are living in the era of information but people of the majority
world don't know the values of Global family, the purpose of life. Both
religious and non religious are moving with same mission to establish the
'Peace and Prosperity'. To ensure the benefit of the Globalisation  as well
as the Global family for majority inhabitances, religious people can
contribute more than politicians, educators and social leaders.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1502


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