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Another influential early study was The media are American by British scholar Jeremy Tunstall ( 1977 ).

It discussed the reasons behind the Anglophone dominance of the industry.

Sean McBride, a former Irish minister and co-founder of Amnesty International, led a major study for Unesco: Many voices, One world – Towards a new more just and more efficient world information and communication order ( 1983 ).

Various legal aspects of this debate were summarized in The politics of world communication by Cees Hamelink ( 1994 ), social and psychological ones in Understanding global news by Jaap van Ginneken ( 1998 ).