The Press, the U.S., and UNESCO East-West News Flow "Imbalance": Qualifying the Quantifications

No one can now deny (if, indeed, anyone had ever been inclined to) that there is less than perfect parity in levels of news items exchanged among the various regions of the world. The secretariat of UNESCO has labored relentlessly during the past decade to commission, promote, and circulate a massive body of empirical studies that has documented the exact quantitative dimensions of these news flow "imbalances" as they exist in virtually every broadcast or wire service transnational configuration (see 6, pp. 255--267). This body of literature forms a foundation...