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How do we 'communicate peace'? People in positions of responsibility in the media, and the creative artists who write, design, direct and produce, can help by providing balanced reporting, emphasizing social responsibility over profit-making, and by promoting peace-building initatives. And religious organizations can use their structures and networks to challenge communicators to be ethically and socially aware, recognizing that people 'are at once citizens of different nations and of one world in which the local and the global are linked.' |
Dave Pomeroy
‘En film av Ingmar Bergman.’ These words on the opening credits as the house lights dim and the first image is projected onto the screen presage an extraordinary visual/aural/visceral experience. For 63 years (his first screenplay was for Torment in 1944) Bergman’s films have engaged audiences with a potent blend of emotional and intellectual power. Bergman’s death on July 30, 2007 brings a final fade-out to the director many would consider the towering film director of the 20th century. (Although he had significant careers in the theatre and television, it is the corpus of 50 films for which he will be known).
Scott Lovaas
While the end of Apartheid in South Africa brought the end of state repression and formal censorship of the press, new mechanisms have since replaced the old. Market-driven English daily newspapers continue, through a series of new filters, to limit, shape, and censor ideas for the benefit of the elite private and public sectors. The manufactured, one-dimensional, pro-market world view that results restricts both freedom and democracy. As South Africa enters its second decade of democracy, with newfound freedoms and civil liberties, further evaluation of the relationship between the media, the state, and the market becomes increasingly vital.
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