Caution urged with news technology
NZPA-AAP Sydney Modern communications technology must not be allowed to eclipse the freedom of the press and the free flow of information, the New South Wales Premier, Mr Neville Wran, told a meeting of international news media leaders in Sydney. Advanced communications systems would enable a great “democratisation” of the access to information used to shape government and business decisions, he said. Mr Wran was delivering
the opening address to the nineteenth annual meeting of the International Press Telecommunications Council, which groups major Western news media organisations. Mr Wran emphasised the importance of the basic ideals of a free press. “There is a possibility that the technology may become the end in itself and the information, the news, becomes merely a commodity to be processed by the system,” he said. “For all our sakes this should not be allowed to happen.”
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Press, 26 April 1984, Page 25
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