New Internationalist: The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for world development.

In this issue
No. 119 January 1983

BEHIND THE SCREEN
Peter Stalker explains why TV has taken a central role in daily life.

Behind the fourth wall
Peter Anderson tells of the impact of one TV documentary on a Sri Lankan village.

The human tribe
Andre Singer defends the filming of tribal peoples.

The dead hand of bureaucracy
Chancal Sarkar explains why the world's largest democracy has one of its least democratic TV systems.

Screen tests
Twelve tips on how to watch TV.

A trust in television
Peter Stalker profiles the International Broadcasting Trust.

Watch your language
TV has a language all of its own. John Hartley interprets.

Bartak's box
Cartoon form Czechoslovakia

Light fantastic
Could it be the hypnotic light from the TV tube that keeps you watching.

Falklands extra
The Glasgow Media Group shows how British TV treated the last war.

Ideas for action

Reviews: New books and a classicCountry profile: ChinaCover photograph: Camera Press

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In this issue No. 119 January 1983

In this issue
No. 119 January 1983