The subcommittee expressed the belief that the coverage of U.N. activities as it appears in the world press could be improved . . .
U.N. Press Release
In other (and simpler) words, U.N. was getting a bad press. In these measured phrases of officialese, the U.N. Advisory Committee of Information Experts last week told the world so.
Earlier in the conference, Chile's Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary General in Charge of Public Information, had said the same, with fewer dots and more dash. He lashed out at newspapermen for "distorting" U.N. news and giving a "fragmentary picture," put the blame on a "crisis-conflict"...
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