RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

must function on uniform ideological foundations. Where the functioning of this uniform system is concerned, it is also stated in the Tenth Congress documents that »the uniformity of the information system is assured in a functional sense too.« The tasks аге concrete ones. I consider that it is not necessary to seek new principles. It is of ргкпагу importance that all the above mentioned forms of linking and cooperation should be achieved by self-management means and resources in order to avoid state intervention and pressure on the realisation of this concept and the weight of responsibility should be transferred to the information media themselves and their associations. It is in this light that the assessment of the extent and the meth )d of the realisation of this function be made. Only the free development of socialistically orientated national cultures and their intensive mutual communication can assure that the nations and nationalities come culturally closer together. According to the Constitution, it is the republics which are responsible for the development of this communication. Radio and television, instruments of the republic, are therefore also responsible for the development of inter-republican cultural cooperation and exchange and the creation of permanent, organised, institutionalised forms in which joint initiatives, programmes and activities are realised on the basis of dialogue. The great significance of this exhange is confirmed when considering that the isolation of a culture in its national framework is detrimental to its development and thereby lessens the creative force of the Yugoslav nations and nationalities. Efforts must therefore constandy be made in all working and social environments to assure the assertion of the achievements and values of the Vugoslav nations and nationalities... Bearing all this in mind, I think that I cannot deny the resuits achieved while criticism, in fact, means a stimulus to overcome those negative aspects in the carrying out of a specific social function. Let us, however, remember the celebrated thesis that television can do nothing by itself. It is conditioned by everything which happens in a specific socio-political community. This is the era in which television is gradually but systematically growing from a social attraction into a social function. It is quite certain that in this transformation period there arise some weaknesses which only organised subjective forces within the radio and television centres can overcome, with, of course, the help of the social community. What I really want to say is that this is not only a question for the people employed in television but also for the community in the broadest sense of the term.

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