RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

responsibility for reporting, that is for the informing of others, is the responsability of each studio which offers such information Skoplje for the whole of the Yugoslav region, Belgrade for all other regions etc. I consider that a step fonvard should be made in this direction and that we should strive more to send more information to others and that the information be more comprhensive... I am of the opinion that the information should be different when the whole of Vugoslavia is involved. Supplementary effort should be exerted to achieve what the Vugoslav viewing public really wants. We have discussed this problem frequently at our meetings but we have never gone further than noting the problem. I, therelore, consider that if we are making concrete proposals, this symposium could draw the conclusion to study this problem in more detail... VELJKO KOJOVIĆ Deputy Secretary in the Secretariat for Information of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina I shall attempt to put forward a number of ideological hypotheses ot inter-republican communication that is as we are saying here, television as an integrating factor of the Vugoslav sell-management community... Inter-republican communication is one of the forms ot existence ol the Yugoslav community. It takes place daily, simultaneously and on various levels. This complex system is made up of economic. political, cultural information and other links and relations. It is m this light that this subject should be examined, for television s contribution as a part of the information system and a factor o integration of society should neither be under nor over-estimated. AJI discussions both here and elsewhere have demonstrated that we quickly reach agreement on questions of principle but that practice constantly makes it necessary for us to take up once again the search for principle positions and commitments. In this context. consider that the extent of the implementation of that роћсу which was agreed upon in the framework of the LCY should be measured... In the general resolution of the Tenth LCY Congress it runs: »The League of Communists will contmue to implement its vanguard political role in the information system with constant efforts to achieve the workers’-class commitment and socialistself-management direction and activity on the part of the press. radio and television«. The League of Communists has undoubtedly called for the foundation of a uniform information system founded on the роКсу of the LCY and the new Constitution. What kind of uniform system is involved here. First and foremost the overall information system in Yugoslavia must be based and

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