The Director of the British Film Institute adds his sober reassessment to the unending debate about First World news media and Third World news. He concedes the imbalance, sees it as the product of a cultural gulf that will not disappear, and is properly skeptical of the "solutions," either one-sided or by way of compromise, that have been proposed at UNESCO and elsewhere; but he sees the need for new networks "constructed in a spirit of real interdependence."