“…If this meant that developing countries were denied the THE VIEW FROM HERE 301 kind of freedom of information advocated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it also meant that information about very serious problems such as arms proliferation, famine, poverty, illiteracy, racism, unemployment, environmental destruction and disease was not reaching the people and governments around the world affected by these problems and who might be called upon to address them (ICSCP, 1980, p. 35). Sujatha Sosale (2003), pp. 377 Á9) argues that the increasing control over information and communication technologies exerted by large, multinational corporations today exacerbates the problem of international communication flows.…”