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The article above appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Year Book 1980 (published 1981). I could not find a reference nor a link to it. The content of this article is fascinating considering the naive/simpletonian debate we have about our present fake news and disinformation. It is an adult assessment of the complex issue of information control — while presently our MSM waddles in primary school level dissertations....

The media were "never free". Information has been tightly controlled by the powers in charge — be it realms or religious.

ABOUT:

Rosemary Righter is a former chief leader writer at The Times, specialising in international politics and economics. She has lived in Hong Kong, where she was assistant editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and then worked for Newsweek, and in Paris - her 'first city' - where she exposed Unesco's assault on press freedom. Her other books include Utopia Lost, an anatomy of the United Nations. She now divides her time between London and Italy, with her husband the distinguished China scholar Robert Elegant.

https://thecritic.co.uk/author/rosemary-righter/

SEE ALSO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Elegant