Cuban leader Fidel Castro established a state-run international news service, Prensa Latina, to allow Latin Americans “.” He also created Radio Havana Cuba, which revolutionary programming across the Americas, including in the U.S. South.
During the same period, Algerians fighting for their independence seized French- to communicate with other revolutionary fighters.
Global South leaders also wanted to shape the international portrayal of their countries. North Atlantic news services often depicted the third world as backward and chaotic, justifying the need for outside .
This tendency was so common that it earned the moniker “” journalism.
In the 1970s, Global South leaders took their concerns about information inequities to , lobbying for binding United Nations regulations that would prohibit direct foreign broadcasts by satellite. It was a quixotic quest to persuade dominant powers to relinquish their control over communications technology, and they didn’t get far.
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