Posted by LAKSHMI on Nov. 21, 2013, 6:42 a.m.
Thursday, November 21
World Television Day 2013
In December 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day commemorating the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.
Opposition to this declaration took the form of 11 abstentions to a vote on the resolution; in expressing their opposition, the delegation from Germany said:
| “ | There are already three United Nations days encompassing similar subjects: World Press Freedom Day; World Telecommunication Day; and World Development Information Day.
To add another day does not make much sense... [T]elevision is only one
means of information and an information medium to which a considerable
majority of the world population has no access... That vast majority
could easily look at World Television Day as a rich man's day. They do
not have access to television. There are more important information
media and here I would mention radio in particular. We think it is more
important to enhance the role of those media than that of television. |