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| | IPS- Porto Alegre 2002 - 'With the truth, we shall overcome' |
 | | Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, proposed an 'ecology of communications' for confronting the contamination of the media by the globalising powers, which through the force of repetition often turn the truth into lies, and lies into truth. |
 | | Ramonet, a panellist at the WSF seminar on 'Democratising Communications and the Media', said yesterday that counter-information from independent sources and civil society contributes towards 'decontamination', but that it must be rigorous and precise in order to avoid falling into the same manipulation of the news as 'the Establishment'. |
 | | Ramonet and Savio shared Sunday's panel with Joelie Palmiere, of the international feminist press agency, Les Pénélopes, based in France, Bolívar Osvaldo León, of the Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, in Ecuador, and Jeff Cohen, of the US-based Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. |
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