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November 24, 2005
Developing countries to launch news website to contain "western media propaganda"
Governments of developing countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America plan to launch an Internet-based news service to counter biased reporting by Western media.
Plans to create the Nonaligned Movement News Network were endorsed by information ministers of more than 80 mainly developing nations, including Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea and Zimbabwe, many of which claim their reputations have suffered because of foreign media coverage.
Countries will start using the network in early 2006 to supply news on domestic events to each other and to rebut "smear campaigns which developing nations have suffered from biased and distorted Western media reports," the ministers said in a statement after a two-day conference in Malaysia.
Posted by admin at November 24, 2005 01:06 PM