The representatives of international broadcasters - BBC World Service, Deutsche
Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice
of America – who met in Paris on Thursday , recognized the important
contribution the Declaration has made to promoting a better-informed world.
The meeting, at Radio France Internationale, noted the importance of Article 19
of the Declaration, which states, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion
and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any
media and regardless of frontiers."
They said that their organizations must continue to maintain the highest
journalistic standards of accuracy, objectivity and truth in upholding the
Declaration.
They noted that some governments have been implicated in harassing, detaining,
expelling, threatening or - in extreme cases - killing journalists, committed
as they are to freedom and information. They also expressed, with regret, the
efforts by some governments to contravene the Declaration by interfering with
international broadcasts through deliberate blocking of transmitters
("jamming") and blocking of websites.
The broadcasters underlined the continued determination of their broadcast
organizations to overcome these obstacles in order to reach the largest
possible audiences worldwide, through traditional means - radio and television
- as well as the Internet and other emerging digital media.
These new media, they noted, offer unprecedented opportunities for interaction
across national borders and between diverse groups of people, in keeping with
the spirit of the Declaration, which enshrines the right to "receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Alain de Pouzilhac, CEO of Radio France Internationale said "Our meeting in
Paris was very constructive and I am delighted that the five major
international broadcasters share the same desire to broadcast objective and
impartial news broadcasts to all publics."
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia
international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the
Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of
news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an
estimated worldwide audience of more than 134 million people. Programs are
produced in 45 languages.
Max Digital Media Newswire
http://www.medianewsline.com/news/119/ARTICLE/3657/2008-12-11.html
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