Akinleye, L & Ojebode, A. (2004) World Information Imbalance: the Domestic Dimension” Topical Issues in Communication Arts & Sciences Vol. 2 pp. 15-24.
Posted by ojebode on September 26, 2008
ABSTRACT:
In the clamour for a New World Information and Communication Order, extensive scholarly attention has been given to international disparities and their effects. But national and domestic issues have only been mentioned, when at all, in passing. This paper attempted to investigate the possibility of there being a domestic dimension to the world imbalance. The daily news bulletins of four broadcast stations were monitored for three months and analysed. The result shows that a very minute proportion of news (7.1%) deals with rural areas and rural issues. even this little fraction is one-way information to and not from the rural people. About one-third of the rural news is spotty. All these point to the need to tackle quest for a new order at the home front as well.
