Mc bride commission

Mc bride commission

1. McBride commission International Communication

2. McBride commission A major reason that the United States withdrew from UNESCO in the 1980's was the anger generated by UNESCO's discussions of a New World Information and Communications Order. A major contribution to that discussion was a UNESCO publication, " Many Voices, One World ". This was the report of UNESCO's International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems . The Commission is offer known as the McBride Commission, after its chair, Sean MacBride.

3. McBride commission As a result of the report, UNESCO is described by Source watch as having launched the International Program for the Development of Communication . (The United States is now a donor to this program.) The Program web site states that it "exists to strengthen the means of mass communication in developing countries, by increasing technical and human resources for the media, by developing community media and by modernizing news agencies and broadcasting organizations."

4. McBride commission International commission for the study of communication problems was appointed in 1977 under the chairmanship of Sean MacBride, an Irish diplomat. The members of the commission were the media dignitaries of several countries and experts in various operational streams of the media . In 1977, an Irish diplomat, Sean MacBride, was appointed as the head of international commission for the study of communication problems. This commission was created under the aegis of the UNESCO. It was result of the growing concerns of the NAM nations for addressing problems related to world communication.

5. NAM Nations The Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) is a group of states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement has 120 members. ... The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations ' members and contain 55% of the world population.

6. MCBRIDE ……… The Commission was established to study four main aspects of global communication: the current state of world communication; the problems surrounding a free and balanced flow of information and how the needs of the developing countries link with the flow; how, in light of the NIEO, A NWICO could be created, and how the media could become the vehicle for educating public opinion about world problems . The interim report generated a good deal of controversy as it tended to legitimize the movement towards the establishment of a NWICO. It levelled charges against the Western wire services for their inadequate coverage of the Third World.

7. MCBRIDe To break through these barriers, the Commission recommended many steps, including: participation in media management by representatives of the public and various citizens groups, horizontal communication, counter-information and three forms of alternative communication: radical opposition, community or local media movements and trade unions or other social groups with their particular communication networks.

8. The resolution proposed: ( i ) elimination of the imbalance and inequalities which characterise the present situation; (ii) elimination of the negative effects of certain monopolists, public or private, and excessive concentrations; (iii) removal of the internal and external obstacles to a free flow and wider and better balanced dissemination of information and ideas; (iv) plurality of sources and channels of information; (v) freedom of the press and information ;

9. the freedom of journalists and all professionals in the communication media, a freedom inseparable from responsibility; (vii) the capacity of developing countries to achieve improvement of their own situations, notably by providing their own equipment, by training their personnel, by improving their infrastructures and by making their information and communication media suitable to their needs and aspirations; (viii) the sincere will of developed countries to help them attain these objectives ;

10. (ix) respect for each people's cultural identity and for the rights of each nation to inform the world public about its interests, its aspirations and its social and cultural values; (x) respect for the right of all peoples to participate in international exchange of information on the basis of equality, justice and mutual benefit; (xi) respect for the right of the public, of ethnic and social groups and of individuals to have access to information sources and to participate actively in the communication process. (UNESCO, 1980)

11. McBride commission It was also required to lay special stress on the international implications of the modern media. In 1980, the report of this commission was published under the title “Many Voices One World”. It also known as “The MacBride Report”

12. The report of the MacBride Commission 1.The report considers the complaints of the NAM nations about the defect in the system of international news transfer . 2 . It also tried to understood the intricacies of apprehension of the west, example : the west had alleged that declaration (of the western block nations or NAM) that defined the responsibilities, calling for their licenses or stating that their rights and freedom should be given special consideration, have the innate threat of  placing undue restrictions on their work . 3.it tried to analyze the problems related to the world communication. 4.it tried to define the issues that formed the bases of conflict between the eastern and western nation in the field of transnational communication. 5.the reporter is not a consensus but only a text.

13. Recommendations of MacBride It recommended taking care of the complaints against defects in the system of international news transfer.2.It recommended for getting solution of problems related to the worldcommunication3.It has defined the issues that formed the communication conflicts betweennations4.it recommended for taking notice of both the sides in a transnational conflicts unequal manner.