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The World is Watching - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB519833
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Harold Crooks, Jim Monro, Peter Raymont
Directors:  Peter Raymont
Producing Agencies:  Investigative Productions Inc. (Toronto)
Subject:  Documentary, Global Studies, Media Literacy, Social Issues, Social Studies, World History
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1989
Running Time:  29:35


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Who decides what's news? And how do they decide? Are foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see? This production focuses on several journalists working in Nicaragua during the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. It examines how the news business works, revealing the inevitable distortions that become part of the process. ABC TV's Peter Jennings and John Quinones; Newsweek, photographer Bill Gentile; The Boston Globe's Randolph Ryan; Edith Coron; reporter for the Paris newspaper, Libération; and John Snow, correspondent for Britain's ITN TV News.


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