一九七八年十一月在巴黎举行的联合国教科文组织第二十届大会上,围绕通过一个关于新闻宣传工具的宣言问题,展开了激烈的辩论。苏联代表打出“支持和平”、“反对种族主义”等旗号,以咄咄逼人的姿态,竭力要排挤世界新闻事业中的西方势力,取而代之。西方国家的代表则要求以“新闻自由”为宣言的“最高原则”,努力维护他们在世界新闻事业中的地 At the twentieth session of the UNESCO Conference in Paris in November 1978, there was a heated debate around the adoption of a declaration on the tools of public information. The representatives of the Soviet Union have displayed “support for peace” and “opposition to racism.” In an aggressive manner, they tried their best to crowd out the Western forces in the world journalism and replace them. Representatives of the western countries demanded that “freedom of the press” be the “supreme principle” of the declaration and strive to safeguard their position in world journalism