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Book Reviews : Media mist over the Third World

THE NEW WORLD Information and Communications Order, or NWICO as it became known to friend and foe alike, was a phrase liable to make otherwise sane western journalists froth at the mouth. But what was NWICO and why did it excite such opposition? The concept was based on what must be a statement of the obvious that the world’s flow of news, both written and electronic, has come to be dominated by a few key news agencies and broadcasters, based in London and New York. No one, at least now, is seriously arguing that these organisations have been acting malevolently towards the less developed countries LDCs in the